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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn (contributor);  … - 2007
's deep recession in the 1990s. Instead, relatively, pensioners fared better than the working age population. On the other … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656888
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Pension plan characteristics and framing effects in employee savings behavior
Card, David E. (contributor); Ransom, Michael R. (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors … contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred contributions to a supplemental savings account. A standard lifecycle savings … model predicts a "dollar-for-dollar" tradeoff between supplemental savings and the combined regular pension contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603599
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Pensions, household saving, and welfare : a dynamic analysis
Blau, David - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233017
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Paid work after retirement : recent trends in Denmark
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2012
The labor market in Denmark seems to follow the trend in a number of other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval 60-64 and for the age group 65-74 where people are eligible to a national social security program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537653
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Live longer and healthier : impact of pension income for low-income retirees
Malavasi, Chiara; Ye, Han - 2024
We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a German program subsidizing the pensions of low-wage workers. Using novel administrative data, we find that eligibility leads to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75)....
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The health implications of social pensions : evidence from China's new rural pension scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262648
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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly : an analysis based on a collective consumption model
Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2008
We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652712
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The heterogeneous impact of pension income on elderly living arrangements : evidence from China's new rural pension scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension status and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283126
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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency...
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