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Ageing and the Welfare State : Securing Sustainability
Meier, Volker - 2010
with these issues. Still, some countries have made substantial progress in securing the long-term sustainability of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148297
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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2021
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315719
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Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform
Abid Fourati, Yosr; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2021
sustainability. This paper’s contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a Choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316320
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009863
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986115
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The Impact of Changes in Second Pension Pillars on Public Finances in Central and Eastern Europe
Égert, Balázs - 2012
: what is the impact on the sustainability of Poland's pension system of the decrease in the pension contribution going to … rates; does the weakening of the Polish second pension system have a different impact on pension system sustainability than … decrease in pension contributions compensated by temporarily higher future rates affect pension sustainability in that country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107061
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Population Aging, Social Security and Fiscal Limits
Heer, Burkhard - 2018
We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper … welfare of a number of policies often advocated to improve the sustainability of pension systems. New tax data on dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912616
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Fiscal Sustainability in the Presence of Systemic Banks : The Case of EU Countries
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2012
fiscal sustainability, for 27 countries of the European Union. We first calculate tax gaps à la Blanchard (1990) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098648
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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability : The Case of the European Union
Afonso, António - 2008
We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … sustainability is an issue in most countries, with a below unit estimated coefficient of expenditure in the cointegration relation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770443
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104253