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social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … decrease fertility less. Finally, the effects of the social security tax on capital per worker are negative with mandatory …
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We analyze the political stability of funded social security. Using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing social security assets in order to lower current taxes. The results and the driving mechanisms carry over to a fully-fledged and carefully...
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We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing. …
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their productivity. Productivity depends stochastically on parents' unobservable investment in their child's human capital …'s children. We decompose the effects of social security on the investment in human capital into an incentive effect, an insurance …
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We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and … daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …
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Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary … theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much … of it was intended to illuminate issues of compelling policy importance, such as declining fertility and population aging …
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age by 10% in the short-run. Completed fertility declines by 1.3 children within 20 years after the reform, reducing the …This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil … contribution base of the Pay-As-You-Go pension system in the long-run. The fertility response is strongest at higher birth parities …
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
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