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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …
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Families and Social Security
Fehr, Hans - 2016
small, marriage serves as an insurance device against longevity risk for the surviving partner …
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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?
Caliendo, Frank - 2009
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
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Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2009
Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by...
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Alternative Social Security Systems and Growth
Kaganovich, Michael; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2021
Demographic trends in most developed economies are characterized by rising longevity and decreasing birthrates. These trends endanger the sustainability of the current public pension systems. Therefore social security reform proposals are on the agenda in many countries. This paper demonstrates...
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Increasing Longevity and Social Security Reforms
Andersen, Torben M. - 2021
Increasing longevity causes an upward trend in the dependency ratio in many countries. This raises concerns about the financial sustainability of social security schemes, and reform initiatives and proposals abound. It is shown that a fundamental policy choice inevitably arises since a given...
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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 limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...
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Anyone for Social Security Reform?
Sen, Partha - 2016
A reform of a pay-as-you-go social security makes the pensioners worse off and the working generations better off in the period of the reform (in a dynamically efficient economy without altruism). The observed reluctance across all age groups to support such reforms is usually explained by the...
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
the small differences in married men's and the large differences in married women's hours worked in the data. Taking the … generating the low cross-country correlation between married men's and women's hours worked in the data, and for explaining the … variation of married women's hours worked across European countries …
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Let the Voters Choose Women
Baltrunaite, Audinga - 2017
We study the effectiveness of a novel measure to reduce gender gaps in political empowerment: double preference voting conditioned on gender, coupled with gender quotas on candidate lists. This policy was introduced in 2013 in Italian local elections. Using a regression discontinuity design, we...
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