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Pension information and women's awareness
Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020
We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288024
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked … recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as Germany will be ageing very rapidly in the near future. Following a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429583
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Decomposition of demographic effects on the German pension system
Fenge, Robert; Peglow, François - 2017
The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782034
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Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2018
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782119
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Reference points for retirement behavior : evidence from German pension discontinuities
Seibold, Arthur - 2019
concentration of job exits at specific ages. In Germany, almost 30% of workers retire precisely in the month when they reach one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057310
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Forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth : evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Giupponi, … - 2023
administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women who had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280148
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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act
Aura, Saku - 2002
This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410000
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416024
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016 - March 2016, revised May 2016
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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Neutral and equitable taxation of pensions as capital income
Kiesewetter, Dirk; Niemann, Rainer - 2002
one under existing legislation, e.g. in Germany or in the U.S. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409774