the effects of a pension reform in Argentina that resulted in an unexpected and substantial increase in permanent income … within the household. Our results imply that a 10 percentage-point increase in senior women’s income share within the couple … chores and to a significant increase of 11% in their husbands’ participation in household chores. Moreover, this large income …

Social Security programmes around the world link public pensions to retirement: people do not lose their pensions if … consistent with it. The main idea is that pensions are a means to induce retirement, that is, to buy the elderly out of the …

This Paper considers the optimal design of public pension provision for the retired and income support for those of …

-as-you-go mechanism for public retirement pensions, when adopted in a dualistic economic system, penalises the most dynamic demographic … show that the Italian case study, which compares the contributions/retirement pensions ratio of the poorer but more rapidly …

and income inequality among pensioners in Hungary before the introduction of pension reforms. We find that the old system …

higher taxes and more early retirement. However, when income effects are factored in, the model suggests that periods of … stagnation – characterized by decreasing labour income – may lead middle-aged individuals to postpone retirement. …

of unfunded state pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded state pensions depends on rate of … return and income risks and also upon the actuarial fairness of annuity contracts. We focus on the case of Japan where ageing … is rapid and unfunded pensions are currently generous. …

equal pensions for all but different contributions which may or may not increase with the number of children. Additionally … case, pensions are decreasing in the number of children: in the latter case, they are increasing. …