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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2024

Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing also in a more general...

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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006

This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...

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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Journal of population economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 259-283

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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …

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Children and pensions

Cigno, Alessandro; Werding, Martin - 2007

fertility behavior and productivity growth. They present theoretical arguments to the effect that public pension coverage as … such will reduce aggregate fertility and may raise aggregate household savings. They argue further that public pensions, as … the policies under discussion. Their policy proposals to address declines in fertility and productivity growth include the …

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2007

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Go forth and multiply: Europe's childless societies : low fertility in Europe: is the pension system the victim or the culprit? ; Europe and the demographic challenge (Panel 3)

Cigno, Alessandro - In: CESifo forum : a bi-monthly journal on European … 8 (2007) 3, pp. 37-42

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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor); … - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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