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Economic liberalization and savings rates

Mansori, Kashif S. - 2001

, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two … that there is a significant and robust relationship between economic liberalization and lower rates of savings. One … implication is that at least part of the decline in savings rates in some countries over the past two decades may be explained by …

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The timing of retirement : new evidence from Swiss female workers

Hänel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a...

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Household saving rates and the design of social security programmes : evidence from a country panel

Disney, Richard (contributor) - 2005

argue that the offsetting effect of social security contributions on household retirement saving depends on how closely the social security programme imitates a private retirement saving plan (i.e. the ‘actuarial’ component of the social security programme) the closer the design of the...

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Gender wage and longevity gaps and the design of retirement systems

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021

We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals' lifetime utilities...

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Joint retirement of couples : evidence from discontinuities in Denmark

García-Miralles, Esteban; Leganza, Jonathan M. - 2021

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying...

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Why forcing people to save for retirement may backfire

Bütler, Monika (contributor); Huguenin, Olivia (contributor) - 2005

If individuals are unable or unwilling to borrow, a higher than desired second pillar pension capital may induce people to retire earlier than they would have in the absence of such a scheme. Individuals thus leave the workforce as soon as the retirement income is deemed sufficient and the...

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How much do means-tested benefits reduce the demand for annuities?

Bütler, Monika; Peijnenburg, Kim; Staubli, Stefan - 2011

We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...

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The determinants of economic growth in European regions

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009

We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...

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Autocratic transitions and growth

Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology - synthetic control methods - to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...

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Do natural resources depress income per capita?

Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...

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