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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 contrast to the situation in Anglo-Saxon countries. It has advantages if labour markets are strong, e.g., following a quick recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as...
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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...
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Does public employment affect household saving rates? : evidence from Chinese household data
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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On the political feasibility of increasing the legal retirement age
Bittschi, Benjamin; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2019
Within a politico-economic model we first establish three hypotheses: (i) Retirees generally prefer a higher retirement age than workers, whereby just retired individuals prefer the highest retirement age, (ii) in equilibrium the level of the legal retirement age is increasing in longevity and...
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When will the Germans get trapped in their pension system?
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Übelmesser, Silke - 2001
The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamentalreforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, onlyfeasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. Todetermine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system,we calculate...
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"Earned, not given"? : the effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions
Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla - 2023
This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a 2014 reform in the German public pension system that lowered the full retirement age (FRA) of individuals with a long contribution history by up to two years and framed the new FRA as reference age for retirement. Using administrative data from...
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Pension information and women's awareness
Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020
were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal …
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Social security reform and intergenerational trade : is there scope for a Pareto-improvement?
Köthenbürger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu - 2002
In earlier literature, the suggested Pareto improvements in pay-as-you-go (PAYG) systems have relied on the presence of externalities or the possibility of intragenerational redistribution. We show that neither assumption is necessary in an economy with intergenerational trade in a fixed factor...
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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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