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endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …
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for consumption and the hours of time supplied to the labour market, they also choose their schooling level and retirement …
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to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital … deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …
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include an additional dimension of public policy, namely education funding. Indeed, the productivity growth of future workers …
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Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through general equilibrium effects on wages? To answer this question, this paper studies optimal linear and non-linear redistributive income taxes and education subsidies in two-type...
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This paper explores how the specification of the earnings function impacts the optimal tax treatment of human capital. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply. However, if most of the education is enjoyed by high...
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Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through general equilibrium effects on wages? To answer this question, this paper studies optimal linear and non-linear redistributive income taxes and education subsidies in two-type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316658
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 … repercussion is that economic growth is lower under imperfect annuities than with perfect annuities. …
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Germany recent reforms that aim at raising retirement age and cutting benefit levels should be complemented by increases in …
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increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for … people to retire prematurely. To this end, countries have adopted alternative retirement age strategies, but our analyses … methods that underestimate life expectancy. This paper discusses how to implement automatic indexation of the retirement age …
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