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In 1980, Chile dramatically reformed its retirement system, replacing what was an old insolvent PAYGO program with a … paper introduces a recently-developed longitudinal survey of individual respondents in Chile, the Social Protection Survey …
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The heated debate about how to reform Social Security has come to a standstill because the view of most Democrats (that Social Security must be a defined benefits plan similar in spirit to the current system) seems irreconcilable with the proposals supported by many Republicans (to create a...
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Implicit taxes in Social Security, which measure Social Security contributions net of benefits accrued as a percentage of earnings, tend to increase over the life cycle. In this paper, we examine the effects of three potential policy changes on implicit Social Security tax rates: extending the...
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This paper analyzes changes in the progressivity of the Social Security benefit formula as a means of lessening the risk inherent in investment-based Social Security reform. Focusing on a single cohort of workers, it simulates the distribution of benefits subject to both earnings and financial...
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Around the world, Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) public pension programs face serious long-term fiscal problems due primarily to … difficulties of transition to funded systems have limited their implementation. Recently, a new variety of public pension program …
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longitudinal examination of pension retirement incentives in several dozen plans observed between about 1960 to 1980. The plans … in the age at which pension present values peak (with retirement after that age penalized). We also find that simple … indicators of pension plans' structural features (e.g. the plan's early retirement age) do not adequately summarize the complex …
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This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our model allows those with high time preference rates to find...
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efficient allocation of risks given the other assets and liabilities of pension issuers and beneficiaries. In this case … question of what assets should be held in pension portfolios …
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We show how the economic incentives to remain in the labor force induced by Sweden's public old-age pension system and … individuals corresponding to groups by gender and educational attainments we calculate the following measures: the replacement …
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We analyze older individuals' debt and financial vulnerability using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS). Specifically, in the HRS we examine three different cohorts (individuals age 56–61) in 1992, 2004, and 2010 to evaluate...
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