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system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement … analyze the implications of late full retirement and partial retirement for the occupational and state pension entitlements …. We pay particular attention to the retirement scenarios that are relevant for the current policy measures, aimed at …
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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extensive and intensive labour supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to … fertility decline, a retirement reform, designed to increase labour supply at the extensive margin, is found to simultaneously … reduce labour supply at the intensive margin. This backlash to retirement reform requires the statutory retirement age to …
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retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or …
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Germany recent reforms that aim at raising retirement age and cutting benefit levels should be complemented by increases in …
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In 2007 Germany has introduced a pension reform which increases the normal retirement age from currently age 65 to 67 … effective retirement age by about one year and redistribute towards future cohorts. However, it hardly reduces old-age poverty … since rich people are more flexible in adjusting retirement. Overall, the efficiency gains of the reform are very modest …
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We explore the implications of alternative methods of discounting future pension outlays for the valuation of funded pension liabilities. Measured liabilities affect the asset-liability ratio of pension funds and, thereby, their policies. Our framework for analysis is an applied many-generation...
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This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate welfare, as measured by equivalent variations. While...
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incentives to early retirement. Due to dynamic effciency, the new NDC scheme provides less than actuarially fair benefits. As a … consequence of the rules adopted to compute coefficients used to convert the notionally accumulated sum at retirement into the …
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Since the early 1990's the World Bank has utilized the multi-pillar framework as a model for the design and evaluation of pension systems. This model is derived from the principle that the primary functions of pension systems, (poverty alleviation, consumption smoothing and insurance) are most...
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