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scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …
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scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the retirement phase of the lifecycle. It discusses … postpone retirement marginally toward the end of the working life. The chapter examines additional criteria (fairness …
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …
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. For those alive and thus allowed to vote, the temporary reduction in taxes outweighs the reduction in retirement benefits …
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This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …
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hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …
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retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario …
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Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...
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