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Population Aging, Social Security and Fiscal Limits

Heer, Burkhard - 2018

European countries which have dependency ratios among the highest in the world. We examine the effects on the threshold and …

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Ageing and the Welfare State : Securing Sustainability

Meier, Volker - 2010

Over the next four decades, increasing old-age dependency ratios exert an enormous upward pressure on welfare spending in most developed countries. As this is mainly due to existing unfunded public pension schemes, many countries have embarked on far-reaching reforms in this area, strengthening...

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Longevity Risk and Taxation of Public Pensions

Lassila, Jukka - 2016

We study transitions from EET tax regime to TEE regime in a defined-benefit pension scheme with a numerical overlapping generations model, using stochastic mortality projections as inputs. In a traditional pension scheme with no automatic longevity rules, such as a link between life expectancy...

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Aging, Taxes and Pensions in Switzerland

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2016

The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...

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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2018

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …

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When the State Mirrors the Family : The Design of Pension Systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2021

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....

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Inter- and Intra-generational Consequences of Pension Buffer Policy under Demographic, Financial and Economic Shocks

Bucciol, Alessandro - 2009

We study numerically the inter- and intra-generational welfare consequences of alternative pension fund policies in response to unexpected demographic, financial and macro-economic shocks. Our analysis is based on an applied many-generation OLG model describing a small-open economy with...

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Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems

Burtless, Gary - 2009

The recent financial crisis and historical record suggest important lessons about the design of national pension systems. First, wide fluctuation in asset returns makes it hard for well-informed savers to select a saving rate or a sensible investment strategy for DC pensions. Workers who follow...

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The Impact of Changes in Second Pension Pillars on Public Finances in Central and Eastern Europe

Égert, Balázs - 2012

This paper studies the impact of recent changes in second pension pillars of three Central and Eastern European Countries on the deficit and implicit debt of their full pension systems. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: what is the impact on the sustainability of Poland's...

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Taxes and Pensions

Diamond, Peter A. - 2009

Atkinson-Stiglitz and Chamley-Judd results, this article raises the issue of tax-favored retirement savings, a topic where the …

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