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This paper studies the design of couples’ income taxation. Consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses’ utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. The information structure and labor supply decisions...
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How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …
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deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …
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retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …
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We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …
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to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …
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agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age … retirement. However, well designed education programs will keep more workers in highly productive activities at the end of their …
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relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the … early retirement behavior in three periods (pre-liberalization, announcement, and implementation) for three groups of … retirement in MRA is not explained by more firms' exits, nor by more early retirement among the exiting firms. It is rather the …
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identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …
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The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems – with a focus on retirement. The paper argues that such effects are non‐negligible and are likely to have major …
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