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The Effect of Informal Care from Children on Cognitive Functioning of Older Parents
Bonsang, Eric - 2013
This study aims to investigate the effect of informal care received from the children, understood as the instrumental component of social support, on the cognitive functioning of elderly parents. As the correlation between informal care and cognitive functioning is likely to be driven by reverse...
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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren
Lumsdaine, Robin L. - 2015
This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...
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Absenteeism, Childcare and the Effectiveness of Pension Reforms
Coda Moscarola, Flavia - 2016
supply of childcare services. Radical reforms risk losing some of their effectiveness if they are not accompanied by parallel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997156
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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
Apps, Patricia F.; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, … - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
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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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133788
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Pension Funds’ Asset Allocation and Participant Age : A Test of the Life-Cycle Model
Broeders, Dirk - 2011
This paper examines the impact of participants' age distribution on the asset allocation of Dutch pension funds, using a unique data set of pension fund investment plans for 2007. Theory predicts a negative effect of age on (strategic) equity exposures. We observe that pension funds do indeed...
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