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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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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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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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dividend. Two policy responses to aging are emphasized: First, a structural policy response of linking mandatory retirement (or …
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The passivity of the demand for pension products is one of the striking features of mandatory pension systems. Consequently, the provision of multiple investment alternatives to households (multifund schemes) does not ensure that contributions are invested efficiently. In addition, despite the...
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Alleviating poverty for the elderly requires a different approach from other age groups, and a minimum pension is likely to be the only viable option. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in 18 Latin American countries using...
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countries that need to increase retirement savings but face political resistance to mandatory increases in contribution rates …
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COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
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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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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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