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Lindbeck, Assar - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009

For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...

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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Bratberg, Espen - 2012

This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data...

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Risk, Return and Portfolio Allocation Under Alternative Pension Arrangements with Imperfect Financial Markets

Miles, David - 2020

This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the steady state impact of different pension arrangements in an environment where financial markets are less than perfect. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between funded and unfunded systems when there are...

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Funded and Unfunded Pension Schemes: Risk, Return and Welfare

Miles, David K. - CESifo - 2000

This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the optimal degree of reliance on fun ded pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of...

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Does Pension Privatization Increase Economic Growth? Evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe

Altiparmakov, Nikola - 2016

Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between ‘carve-out' pension privatization … evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe was associated with higher economic growth. The result … particularly unlikely in countries resorting to debt-financed privatization. Furthermore, we note the lack of positive pension …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behavior will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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Competition and Physician Behaviour : Does the Competitive Environment Affect the Propensity to Issue Sickness Certificates?

Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2017

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own practice, work in local emergency...

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Gatekeeping Versus Monitoring : Evidence from a Case with Extended Self-Reporting of Sickness Absence

Torsvik, Gaute; Vaage, Kjell - 2021

We examine the impact of a policy reform that gave employees in a municipality extended rights to self-declare sickness absence. To identify the effect of bypassing the physician as an absence certifier we contrast the development of absence in the reform municipality with absence in similar...

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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