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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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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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In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies. The optimal income tax trades off social insurance against incentives to work and to invest in human capital....
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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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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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mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time - and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …
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to the aging of the US population; however, lower productivity growth would result in higher optimal pension payments. In …
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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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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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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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