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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?
Caliendo, Frank - 2009
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?
Dolls, Mathias - 2018
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … public pension payments. This reform did not change the level of pensions, but only provided information to individuals about … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …
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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2021
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...
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Intergenerational Risk Sharing by Means of Pay-as-You-Go Programs - an Investigation of Alternative Mechanisms
Thogersen, Oystein - 2007
A pay-as-you-go (paygo) pension program may provide intergenerational pooling of risks to individuals' labor and capital income over the life cycle. By means of a model that provides illuminating closed form solutions, we demonstrate that the magnitude of the optimal paygo program and the nature...
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Contributive Pensions and Imperfect Tax Compliance : A Political Economy Model
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2018
This paper sheds light on the role of public institutions as a way to reduce tax evasion through a close link between payroll taxation and pension benefits. We use a political economy model in which agents have the possibility to hide part of their earnings in order to avoid taxation. Taxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936565
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Aging, Taxes and Pensions in Switzerland
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2016
until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998268
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Optimal Pensions in Aging Economies
Heer, Burkhard - 2015
supply decision and 3) accounts for contributions-defined pensions of the US social security system. With these more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028781
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Maintaining One's Living Standard at Old Age: What Does that Mean? Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany
Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2013
How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643338
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Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2007
We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094360
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Funded and Unfunded Pension Schemes: Risk, Return and Welfare
Miles, David K. - CESifo - 2000
pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between … state the importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181541