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Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

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 …

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Optimal Social Security Design

Miles, David K; Sefton, James - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper considers the optimal design of public pension provision for the retired and income support for those of working age. We consider social security systems that differ in terms of the level of benefits, degree of means testing and the nature of contributions. We aim to find which system...

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Undesirable Redistributions in the Retirement-Public Pension Schemes: The Italian Case Study

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

-as-you-go mechanism for public retirement pensions, when adopted in a dualistic economic system, penalises the most dynamic demographic … of increase in real wages and employment are usually higher in the developing sub-sectors of an economic system, we argue … show that the Italian case study, which compares the contributions/retirement pensions ratio of the poorer but more rapidly …

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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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Detection of Local Interactions from the Spatial Pattern of Names in France

Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using data on name distributions in 95 French departments observed from 1946 to 2002, we investigate spatial and social mechanisms behind the transmission of parental preferences. Drawing inspiration from recent work on social interactions, we develop a simple discrete choice model that predicts...

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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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Occupational Pension Funds: Getting the Long-Run Answers Right

Hannah, Leslie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

The impact of the British government's new proposals for personal portable pensions and of the parallel reduction of …

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Old-Age Support in Indonesia: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements.

Cameron, Lisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

This is the first paper of which we are aware that attemps to formally model the supply-supply behavior of elderly individuals in a developing countryWithout broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their current and accumulated...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...

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The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: the case of a pension reform in Argentina

Berniell, Inés; de la Mata, Dolores; Machado, Matilde Pinto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Transfers to women may affect their bargaining power within the household and consequently their well-being. We analyze the effects of a pension reform in Argentina that resulted in an unexpected and substantial increase in permanent income for around 1.8 million senior women (women 60 years and...

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