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Why forcing people to save for retirement may backfire

Buetler, Monika; Huguenin, Olivia; Teppa, Federica - 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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Gender Differences in Face-to-Face Deceptive Behavior

Lohse, Tim - 2020

We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In the first part, we compare women's to men's deceptive behavior using data from an incentivized income reporting experiment in which lies can be detected in the course of an audit....

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Beyond Ramsey: Gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2012

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses'...

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Domestic abuse: Instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...

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Collective labor supply of native dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Maassen … - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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A Social Norm Nudge to Save More : A Field Experiment at a Retail Bank

Dur, Robert; Fleming, Dimitry; van Garderen, Marten; … - 2021

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …, we find no treatment effect on actual savings, neither in the short run nor in the long run. Our null findings are quite …

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What explains the variation in estimates of labour supply elasticities?

Evers, Michiel; de Mooij, Ruud A.; van Vuuren, Daniel J. - 2005

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...

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Retirement, pensions, and ageing

Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - 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...

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Annuity market imperfection, retirement and economic growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2009

We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...

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