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A life-cycle growth model is used to investigate the quantitative impact of gradually converting the financing of social security from pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) to full funding. The magnitudes of the losses and gains that particular age cohorts will experience under alternative speeds of conversion...
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In Hungary, average initial old age pensions have risen much faster than average pensions over the past decade. Several … importance. In most countries, initial pensions are determined on the basis of a wage path of several decades, and nominal … initial pensions. The paper examines several aspects of this issue, including the plausibility of a significant decline in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468530
In Hungary, average initial old age pensions have risen much faster than average pensions over the past decade. Several … importance. In most countries, initial pensions are determined on the basis of a wage path of several decades, and nominal … initial pensions. The paper examines several aspects of this issue, including the plausibility of a significant decline in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454665
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I model the hypothesis that preferences evolve and permanent differences in individual attitudes towards work emerge between two countries characterized initially by identical preferences as a result of a period in which only one of the two countries is subject to regulations constraining labor...
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Due to an EU directive, with tight deadlines, the Hungarian government has to work out program, including a pension reform. The plan is to be discussed publicly and made into a law. The last public and detailed pension package was a Working Paper of the National Bank of Hungary, 2016, which...
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The Hungarian Personal Income Tax system is being transformed between 209 and 2013. Tax brackets and the previously existing tax credit is being abolished and this changes the net/gross income ratios in all income categories. This does not only lead to a significant loss in government's income,...
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The Hungarian Personal Income Tax system is being transformed between 209 and 2013. Tax brackets and the previously existing tax credit is being abolished and this changes the net/gross income ratios in all income categories. This does not only lead to a significant loss in government's income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301400
Due to an EU directive, with tight deadlines, the Hungarian government has to work out program, including a pension reform. The plan is to be discussed publicly and made into a law. The last public and detailed pension package was a Working Paper of the National Bank of Hungary, 2016, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454621
We apply the set up of limited commitment model to empirically test the role of informal risk-sharing networks using panel data on informal credit transactions from rural Ethiopia. The empirical estimates provide convincing evidence for the belief that enforcement problem limits the direct role...
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