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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703163
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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262446
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - 2004
This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262119
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"Should I Pay for You or for Myself"? The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit Systems
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276956
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269880
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A Constitutional Theory of the Family
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762141
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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703380
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Social Security in Belgium : Distributive Outcomes
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2005
The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275028
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Income inequality and saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; el Attar, Mayssun - 2012
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291404