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We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...
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The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
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of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large … savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth year. This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to assess … the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …
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-generations model, where one country has PAYG pensions and the other country has funded pensions. The paper shows that the PAYG country …
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A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement choices. As far as we know, this isthe first empirical study to estimate the conditional multiple-years modelput forward by Stock and Wise (1990). This implies that we account...
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We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are derived as changes in a composite health stock...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, disability benefit rates in the Netherlands were among the highest in the world. However, since the beginning of this century the number of disability cases has dropped remarkably due to some very successful policy reforms. An administrative dataset of Dutch disability...
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-up. We use an overlapping-generations model with Beveridgean pay-as-you-go pensions, where individuals differ in ability and …
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory … individual savings, that the fully funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of the median worker and that … decisions is a Pareto- equilibrium. Nowadays most of capital supply stems from individual and institutionalised pension savings …
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