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This paper outlines some of the arguments for and against the funding of public pensions, with a view to establishing whether there is an economic basis for judging funding to be superior to pay-as-you-go (PAYG). It is argued that funding does not have a clear advantage, and the case for a shift...
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Migrants, being relatively low earners, are net beneficiaries of the welfare state. However, this paper uses a dynamic … model to show that because of migrants’ positive influence on the pension system, which is an important pillar of any …
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This paper examines the impact of social security on welfare. The provision of social security reduces precautionary savings and encourages early retirement. Consequently, it lowers aggregate capital, employment, output, and consumption. On the other hand, it also provides old age insurance....
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We use the IMF''s Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the United States. Introducing personal retirement accounts is unlikely to yield significant macroeconomic benefits unless it spurs additional fiscal consolidation to prevent a...
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Several European countries are currently considering reversing parts of their pension reforms that were adopted previously to improve sustainability. In this paper we present a framework that allows us to quantify the macroeconomic and fiscal costs of such reversals. We thereby integrate the...
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-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where …
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-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …
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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to …
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Weighed down by population aging, slow economic growth, and high unemployment, National Insurance Schemes in the Caribbean are projected to run substantial deficits and deplete their assets in the next decades, raising the prospects of government intervention. With the region highly indebted,...
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