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Demography and Provisions for Retirement - The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2020

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …

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Does Mandatory Saving Crowd Out Voluntary Saving? Evidence from a Pension Reform

Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

Recently, mandatory pension contributions in the private sector in Iceland were increased substantially while remaining unchanged in the public sector. This constituted a large natural experiment. We study the effects of this experiment on households’ voluntary saving using administrative...

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Time Preferences Over the Life Cycle and Household Saving Puzzles

Kureishi, Wataru; Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah; … - 2021

Most economic models assume that time preferences are stable over time, but the evidence on their long-term stability is lacking. We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We provide new evidence that discount rates...

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Inconsistent time preferences and on-the-job search - when it pays to be naive

Fahn, Matthias; Seibel, Regina - 2019

We study optimal employment contracts for present-biased employees who can conduct on-the-job search. Presuming that firms cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be better off than sophisticated or time-consistent...

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Cooperation in a Company: A Large-Scale Experiment

Deversi, Marvin; Kocher, Martin G.; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020

We analyze cooperation within a company setting in order to study the relationship between cooperative attitudes and financial as well as non-financial rewards. In total, 910 employees of a large software company participate in an incentivized online experiment. We observe high levels of...

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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education

Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020

This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...

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Pennies from Haven: Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...

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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers

Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021

We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...

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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?

Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022

Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...

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The Career Effects of Union Membership

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; … - 2023

We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in setting wages and determining work amenities. In the...

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