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for the present century, where birth and mortality rates in most western countries are steeply declining. …
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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 choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
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We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the …
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chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …
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We exploit a unique Swiss reform to identify the importance of passivity, claiming social security benefits at the Full Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that raising the FRA while imposing small early claiming penalties significantly delays pension...
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The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined contribution (NDC) scheme. As the new contribution...
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This paper demonstrates that the link between heterogeneity in longevity and lifetime income across countries is mostly … significantly reduce the effects of heterogeneity in longevity through changes in pension design. The paper suggests and explores a …
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Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...
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The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in … accounts. However, some degree of political involvement with the working of the pension systems has continued (f.e., in Italy … with a discontinuous working history in Italy and Sweden suggest that the replacement rates will be low, unless the …
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