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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 …
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China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all counties with over 400 million people enrolled. This implementation of the largest social pension program in the world offers a unique setting for studying the economics of...
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in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a significant impact on pension incomes in NDC … countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany …
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In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …
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sense of internal control and for women with a relatively high sense of external control. Last, we provide evidence that …
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administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women who had …
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employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension …
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modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … different retirement incentives for men and women, with little flexibility in the retirement decision for men and substantially … more flexibility for women as a function of financial incentives and household composition. …
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spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 … Age Pension reform in Australia increased the eligibility age for Age Pension benefits for women. This reform caused an … increase in participation of men married to women in the affected cohorts. The behavioral responses are due to wealth effects …
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In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an exception for workers with demanding occupations, since health considerations may make it unreasonable to expect them to work longer. We analyze unique Dutch survey data on the...
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