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The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper...
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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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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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Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the financial consequences of ageing. Although the success of these policies is ultimately determined at the labour market, little is known about the effects of higher LRAs at the...
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structural model is estimated in which utility is the discounted sum of within period utilities that depend on employment status …
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Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …
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pensions, and no pensions. We show evidence that delaying exiting employment increases the hazard of dying between the ages of …
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This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
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In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect compounding, and PB, the tendency to value the present over the future, are highly significant...
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implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …
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