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countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a … large gender gap in the labour market participation and employment pathways. Lower employment rates and gender pay gaps, as …
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of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …
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, gender, race, health, education, profession, income, and wealth - is sizable and has not declined in recent decades. The …
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Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset equations constrained to add up to net worth. We find little evidence that in 2006 healthy households or...
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, gender and education and strongly affect lifecycle wage profiles. The largest effects can be observed for younger cohorts in …
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In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the urban labor market, the average gender pension gap decreased between … cohort analysis to gain further insights into the reasons for changes in the gender pension gap. We utilized data from the …
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We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …
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The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in … with a discontinuous working history in Italy and Sweden suggest that the replacement rates will be low, unless the … retirees in Italy and Sweden of a current labor market reform: the introduction of a unique labor market contract, aimed at …
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not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from …
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This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the retirement phase of the lifecycle. It discusses the differences in four UPPS designs defined with regard...
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