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Joint Retirement in Europe
Honoré, Bo E. - 2014
In this project we study joint retirement of couples in Europe. We characterize various empirical regularities and use a model for simultaneous duration variables developed in Honor e and de Paula (2014). Whereas conventionally used duration models cannot account for joint retirement, our model...
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Spousal Retirement and Hours Outcomes
Stancanelli, Elena - 2014
' retirement strategies. Earlier literature in this area focused on spousal participation decision. Here we exploit the law on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039945
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Divorcing Upon Retirement
Stancanelli, Elena - 2014
Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual life that may also affect marriage stability, a fact which has …
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Marital Risk, Family Insurance and Public Policy
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2009
The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals...
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Family Histories and Women's Retirement : The Role of Childbearing and Marital Experiences
Damman, Marleen; Henkens, Kene; Kalmijn, Matthijs - 2014
Although from a life course perspective women’s retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events earlier in life, such as childbirth and divorce, empirical insights into these relationships are limited. Drawing on three-wave panel data, collected in 2001, 2006-2007, and 2011...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143714
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Opportunities for Improving Pension Wealth Decumulation in the Netherlands
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011
This paper examines policies for the decumulation of pension wealth in the Netherlands. It suggests a design framework … in the Netherlands – and in sharp contrast to most other developed countries – this framework suggests that the welfare … of citizens in the Netherlands might be improved by reducing the level of mandatory annuitization in order to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128760
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The Impact of Human Capital on Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice : Evidence for the Netherlands
Minderhoud, Ingmar - 2011
We study the impact of human capital on life-cycle portfolio choice using Dutch data. A distinction is made between the riskless view of human capital as having bond-like characteristics, and the risky conception of future wage income having stock-like properties. As in Benzoni, Collin-Dufresne,...
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Risk Sharing and Individual Lifecycle Investing in Funded Collective Pensions
Ponds, Eduard H.M. - 2011
Netherlands. Dutch pension funds traditionally are strong in organizing intergenerational risk sharing. There is a nationwide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130547
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The Impact of Scale, Complexity, and Service Quality on the Administrative Costs of Pension Funds – A Cross-Country Comparison
Bikker, Jacob Antoon - 2011
costs across Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the US. We find that, except for Canada, large unused economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132754
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Retirement Expectations in the Netherlands
van Soest, Arthur - 2011
We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity of Dutch state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the summer of 2006, monthly survey data were collected on the expectations of Dutch households...
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