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The Effect of Pension Design on Employer Costs and Employee Retirement Choices: Evidence from Oregon
Chalmers, John; Johnson, Woodrow T.; Reuter, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
, we show that employees respond to within-year variation in their retirement incentives and, consistent with peer effects …, that they respond more strongly to these incentives when more of their coworkers face similar incentives. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969253
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Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice
Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Ivković, Zoran; Weisbenner, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We study the empirical determinants of intertemporal choice by analyzing a unique decision Croatian retirees made recently about whether to accept an immediate pension payment or a larger stream of delayed payments. Individual decisions are correlated in sensible ways with income, liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969313
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Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Why are public-sector workers so heavily compensated with pensions and other non-pecuniary benefits? In this paper, we present a political economy model of shrouded compensation in which politicians compete for taxpayers' and public employees' votes by promising compensation packages, but some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969337
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The Perception Of Social Security Incentives For Labor Supply And Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think
Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
framing experiment, which shows that how the incentives for delayed claiming are presented has an impact on hypothetical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969349
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We further show that providing work … incentives to DI recipients may both increase their disposable income and reduce program costs. Our findings also suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969414
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The Nexus of Social Security Benefits, Health, and Wealth at Death
Poterba, James; Wise, David; Venti, Steven F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
have income below the poverty level in their last years of life. Many of these individuals have few assets to draw on to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969443
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Linking Benefits to Investment Performance in US Public Pension Systems
Novy-Marx, Robert; Rauh, Joshua D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper calculates the effect that introducing risk-sharing during either retirement or the working life would have on public sector pension liabilities. We begin by considering the introduction of a variable annuity for the retirement phase, modeled on the Wisconsin Retirement System, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969448
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Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse; von Wachter, Till Marco; Mueller, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Disability insurance (DI) applications and awards are countercyclical. One potential explanation is that unemployed individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit the haphazard pattern of UI benefit extensions in the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969455
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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement - Introduction and Summary
Coile, Courtney; Milligan, Kevin; Wise, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … strong relationship across countries between social security incentives to retire and the proportion of older persons out of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950785
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Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Fang, Hanming - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We describe the risks faced by the ageing population and survey the corresponding insurance markets for these risks. We focus on income risk, health expenditure risk, long-term care expenditure risk and mortality risk. We also discuss the interactions between social insurance and private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950891