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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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Overconfidence and gender differences in wage expectations
Briel, Stephanie; Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; … - 2020
We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts....
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How and why the gender pension gap in urban China decreased between 1988 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Zhan, Peng; Jia, Hanrui - 2023
In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are important because pension rights and amounts are based on labor force participation and wages. However, as this study demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the...
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for...
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The impact of life-course developments on pensions in the NDC systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and point system in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka; Góra, Marek; Kotowska, … - 2018
Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences …-age pensions in the future. We argue that the pension systems' design modifications that weaken the link between contribution and … benefits would not solve the challenge of providing adequate old-age pensions to people with interrupted careers. On the …
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Long-term effects of individual placement and support services for disability benefits recipients with severe mental illnesses
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Spijkerman, Marcel; Zwinkels, Wim - 2020
This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...
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Gender wage and longevity gaps and the design of retirement systems
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals' lifetime utilities...
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension … increasing or stable due to rising labor market participation of younger birth cohorts. -- Public pensions ; cohort effects …
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On the heterogeneity in longevity among socioeconomic groups : scope, trends, and implications for earnings‐related pension schemes
Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Holzmann, … - 2016
or earnings (i.e., the contribution base of earnings‐related social programs such as pensions) and as heterogeneity is …
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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2023
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...
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