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Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...

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Taxing Pensions

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The … design of public pensions cannot be separated from the one of taxation. Regarding private pensions, the key issue is whether …

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Habit Formation and Labor Supply

Cremer, Helmuth; Donder, Philippe De; Maldonado, Darío; … - CESifo - 2008

This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to ‘unretire’, i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094153

Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...

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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

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Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - CESifo - 2009

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Long-Term Care Policy, Myopia and Redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth - 2012

subsidy on private LTC insurance. Interestingly, savings (which goes untaxed in the first-best but plays the role of self …

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Forced Saving, Redistribution and Nonlinear Social Security Schemes

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

their quot;myopic selfquot; emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is …) is used for both types. We show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics …

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Long-Term Care Policy, Myopia and Redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2012

subsidy on private LTC insurance. Interestingly, savings (which goes untaxed in the first-best but plays the role of self …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693464

Forced Saving, Redistribution and Nonlinear Social Security Schemes

Cremer, Helmuth; Donder, Philippe De; Maldonado, Darío; … - CESifo - 2008

“myopic self” emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is paternalistic: the rate …. We show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics. This is because …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765789