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This paper reviews the factors that should guide the design of private funded pensions to create a complete pension system alongside a notional defined contribution -- or public -- component. It argues that a mix of public and private pensions is the most effective option to deliver the best...
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extensive and intensive labor supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to … fertility decline, a retirement reform, designed to increase labor supply at the extensive margin, is found to simultaneously … reduce labor supply at the intensive margin. This backlash to retirement reform requires the statutory retirement age to …
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One of the primary motivations behind the establishment of noncontributory pension programs is to allow beneficiaries to retire from the labor force. Yet, as with other unconditional cash transfer schemes, their aggregate effects may be more complex. Using panel data and instrumental variable...
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context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
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The authors examine the association of financial literacy with retirement planning in Russia, a country with a … and positively related to retirement planning involving private pension funds and schemes. Thus, along with encouraging … the availability of private retirement plans, efforts to improve financial literacy could be pivotal to the expansion of …
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dividend. Two policy responses to aging are emphasized: First, a structural policy response of linking mandatory retirement (or …
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retirement age aiming at offsetting the effects on the supply of labor following fertility changes. The authors find that the … retirement age should increase more than proportionally to the direct fall in labor supply caused by a fall in fertility. The … supply to changes in the statutory retirement age. The model has subsequently been calibrated for Brazil by Jorgensen (2010 …
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This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove...
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future retirement income for a significant part of the labor force. This note stresses that the paternalistic approach of …
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In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to...
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