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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members' attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household...

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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … occupational pensions. …

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Pension design with a large informal labor market : evidence from Chile

Joubert, Clement - 2014

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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Health status, disability and retirement incentives in Belgium

Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - 2013

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

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Social insurance, informality and labor markets : how to protect workers while creating good jobs

Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - 2013

design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that …

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(Lack of) pension knowledge

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013

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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Early retirement and post retirement health

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov; Josephson, Malin - 2014

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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Job displacement insurance : a policy typology

Parsons, Donald O. - 2016

separation, most commonly for retirement, which highlights the link with pensions. Conversely the severance properties of pension …

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Early retirement and financial incentives : differences between high and low wage earners

Euwals, Rob; Trevisan, Elisabetta - 2014

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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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …

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