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This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social … shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or increasing longevity, and the type of unfunded social security … provides a refinement to common policy recommendations that favor eliminating mandatory early retirement regulations in aging …
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We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...
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This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded … the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or increasing longevity, and the type of pension system, i.e. defined … contributions or defined benefits, are important in understanding this impact. Results show that when aging is driven by increasing …
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first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced … economies. Shrinking retirement annuities, however, could offset and potentially reverse these effects. We also show that aging …
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We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to...
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We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples (PUMS files) of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
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The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...
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One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the … expenditures of the high age classes and thus overstates the increase of future HCE due to aging. Secondly, we show that the non … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the sharp decline in cardiovascular disease mortality...
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automation potential is low. Economic aging also impedes the creation of innovation at the technological frontier. …
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