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This paper investigates empirically the fiscal and welfare trade-offs involved in designing a pension system when workers can avoid participation by working informally. A dynamic behavioral model captures a household's labor supply, formal/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the...
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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that …
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Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years … well-informed about pensions. However, there are many reasons to believe that individuals may not be well-informed due to … the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
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separation, most commonly for retirement, which highlights the link with pensions. Conversely the severance properties of pension …
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners. Using a stylized life-cycle model, we derive hypotheses on the behaviour of the two types. We use administrative data and employ a linear random effects model to test the...
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. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …
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This paper deals with two policy approaches to address the problem of the "pensions time bomb" by influencing private …-sector pension provision. In assessing the role of private-sector pensions, it is common to concentrate exclusively on the issue of … since private-sector pension arrangements have significant implications for governments' finances. When private pensions …
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to intergenerational conflict. Let people with rights to public pensions have the option of using a portion of their … potential pensions to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The policy is entirely voluntary; only those … to draw their public pensions and the employers have the right not to employ them. In effect, the policy involves taking …
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