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We show that people exposed to greater pension risk are less likely to invest in risky assets. We exploit a reform that links people's future pension benefits to their pension funds' funding ratio - a measure of the fund's financial health-making funding ratios a fund-specific measure of pension...
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We study heterogeneity in the effects of two pension reforms in Germany that closed pathways into early retirement: the …
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retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …
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-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …
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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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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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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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and potential program substitution in a regression-discontinuity framework. Germany abolished an important early …
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age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …
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This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. To identify the causal impact, we exploit a major reform of the Australian Age Pension which has significantly...
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