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The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions
Valdés-Prieto, Salvador - 2009
Chile approved in early 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor for a unified program with a pioneering design, with phase-in ending in 2012. This paper describes the political economy of this reform and evaluates it with regards to efficiency and...
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Taxing Pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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Postponing Retirement and Social Security in a Two Sector Model
Sen, Partha - 2021
longer and birth rates have declined. Postponing the full retirement age (FRA), when retirees are entitled to full pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314811
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On the Political Feasibility of Increasing the Legal Retirement Age
Bittschi, Benjamin - 2019
Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement … age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the … legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and (iii) decreasing in the public pension replacement rate. We then test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892102
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Early retirement and social security : a long term perspective
Conde-Ruiz, Jose Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2005
We provide a long-term perspective on the individual retirement behaviour and on the future of retirement. In a … equilibrium with positive social security contribution rates and early retirement. Aging has two opposite effects: it leads to … the existence of crucial income effects: a decrease of the income of young people will induce them to postpone retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272717
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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the Covid-19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269587
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When Distrust Goes Viral: Causal Effects of Covid-19 on European Political Attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492950
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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599199
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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824579
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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity : What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224088