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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
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Will it last? : An assessment of the 2001 German pension reform
Bonin, Holger - 2001
, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient …In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … moderate economic conditions. However, the new private pension plans provide scope for further downsizing state pensions …
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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
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"Should I pay for you or for myself?" : the optimal level and composition of retirement benefits systems
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001
Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...
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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
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Should UI benefits really fall over time?
Hassler, John - 2002
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - 2002
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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Results from the IZA international employer survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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