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Maintaining one's living standard at old age : what does that mean? ; evidence using panel data from Germany
Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013
How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...
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Effects of Pensions on Savings : Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2000
are not consistent with a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … average for this cohort on the verge of retirement. When pensions and social security are included, wealth accumulated by the …
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Retirement and Wealth
Gustman, Alan L. - 2003
value of pensions and social security that better reflects the accrual of benefits under defined contribution plans. Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786844
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429583
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Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Samwick, Andrew A.; … - 2011
Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043164
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Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2005
The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security has proposed a number of changes in Social Security, each of them introducing personal accounts funded from a portion of payroll tax receipts, and in one case, out of additional contributions. These changes are presented in the form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028129
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Second-best properties of implicit social security taxes : theory and empirical evidence
Fenge, Robert; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2002
This paper investigates the inter-temporal structure of implicit taxes that arise in unfunded pension schemes. We demonstrate that these tax rates are declining over the life cycle. Using German micro-data for men and married women we estimate periodic wage elasticities of labour supply in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410305
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Second-Best Properties of Implicit Social Security Taxes : Theory and Evidence
Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2021
This paper investigates the inter-temporal structure of implicit taxes that arise in unfunded pension schemes. We demonstrate that these tax rates are declining over the life cycle. Using German micro-data for men and married women we estimate periodic wage elasticities of labour supply in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320477
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Policy effects in hyperbolic vs. exponential models of consumption and retirement
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 5/6, pp. 465-473
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Effects of social security policies on benefit claiming, retirement and saving
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - In: Journal of public economics 129 (2015), pp. 51-62
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