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Demography and Provisions for Retirement : The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2020
hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …
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Couples' Retirement Under Individual Pension Design : A Regression Discontinuity Study for France
Stancanelli, Elena - 2016
Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Kink Design in Germany
Ye, Han - 2019
I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890153
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128568
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions : Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo - 2016
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001346
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Taxing Pensions
Cremer, Helmuth - 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies
Canta, Chiara - 2018
We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915327
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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions : Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis
de Grip, Andries - 2019
family income before retirement across partners, as well as the survival likelihood of the partner and the number of years …-looking, more risk averse and more altruistic individuals have a stronger preference to redistribute part of their pension wealth to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862461
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COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert V.; Watson, Timothy - 2022
This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...
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