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until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model … capita income to less than 6%. …
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pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between … state the importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate … of return and income risks and also upon the actuarial fairness of annuity contracts. …
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Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...
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corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of "implicit tax" in …
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importance of unfunded, state pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate of … return and income risks and also upon the actuarial fairness of annuity contracts. We focus on the case of Japan where aging … is rapid and unfunded pensions are currently generous. …
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In this paper we address the question whether in case of population ageing a transition from an unfunded to a more funded pension scheme is politically feasible in a representative democracy. We consider two parties: a right-wing party which is willing to trade off intragenerational equity...
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pensions. Present and future public subsidies may at the same time be reduced. We propose a quantitative analysis of the 2008 … reform of the Paris Metro pensions. Focusing on the case of train drivers, we show that the reform should save public funds …
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public pension payments. This reform did not change the level of pensions, but only provided information to individuals about … direct way to increase public pensions, increase after receiving the letter. …
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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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rules, such as a link between life expectancy and pensions or retirement age, the tax regime shift can be used to improve …
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