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Pension Rules and Labour Market Mobility
Lammers, Marloes - 2017
This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003
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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What Simon says
Heukelom, Floris - 2007
This paper provides an overview of the work of Herbert Simon and his ideas about rational decision making. By his own standards, Simon is an economist who works in the tradition of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall. The central theme in Simon’s research is how human beings organize themselves in...
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Savings Adequacy Uncertainty: Driver or Obstacle to Increased Pension Contributions?
van Schie, Ron J.G.; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - 2012
data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on … retirement savings contributions and information search processes. We combine ideas from the literature in psychology and … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results …
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House Prices, Second Mortgages and Household Savings; An Empirical Investigation for the Netherlands, 1987-1994
Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002
paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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Saving Private Pareto
Houba, Harold - 2013
We include initial holdings in the jungle economy of Piccione and Rubinstein (Economic Journal, 2007) and relax the assumptions on consumption sets and preferences. We show that initial holdings are irrelevant for lexicographic welfare maximization. Equilibria other than such maximizers can be...
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Optimal Sharing of Labor Productivity Risks and Mix of Pay-as-You-Go and Savings
Kusmerski, Debora - 2012
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) social security, and the mix of PAYG and savings for retirement provision in a small open economy. It … exposure. The paper also provides a condition for partial displacement of savings by the PAYG, which is in line with …
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2015
offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …
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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis
van Praag, Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2006
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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