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combine high-quality survey and administrative data. Our results suggest that partial or gradual retirement options offered by …
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We investigate optimal taxation of lifetime income with and without an emigration option during old age. The government sets the rates of deferred taxation and of possibly reduced taxation of interest. If agents are immobile, the optimal policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on...
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This paper discusses mandatory participation in Dutch occupational pension schemes. While mandatory participation is a historical feature of most second-pillar pension arrangements, some recent developments may affect the case for mandatory participation. The main ones are the revision of the...
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There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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decade there is currently limited analytical guidance on the taxation of retirement provisions within a country, and there is … mobility decisions, fiscal fairness of tax revenue around retirement provisions between source and residency country, and …
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contributions into retirement accounts, that too, in an age-independent manner. This is puzzling because such funded pension schemes … effectively mandate the young, who wish to borrow, to save for retirement. Further, if agents are present-biased, they disagree … with the intent of such schemes and attempt to undo them by reducing their own saving or even borrowing against retirement …
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consistent with the lower minimum age for early retirement applying to women …
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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
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