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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness when Longevity Increases: Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799708
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Early Lessons from Country Experience with Matching Contribution Schemes for Pensions
Holzmann, Robert; Hinz, Richard; Tuesta, David - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2012
Matching defined contribution schemes are gaining popularity in both rich and poor countries as a promising means to reduce gaps in the participation in formal pension systems.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784857
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Intergenerational actuarial fairness when longevity increases : amending the retirement age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, … - 2021
Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668785
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A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection
Holzmann, Robert - 2013
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic position and outlines key ingredients to make it a successful experience. Yet to turn this challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328884
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Old-age financial protection in Malaysia: Challenges and options
Holzmann, Robert - 2015
This policy paper presents key findings and suggestions on Malaysia's old-age financial protection system within the context of the country's broader social security framework. The trademark policy approach focusing on job creation instead of expanding social security programs served the country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348252
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The Taxation of Internationally Portable Pensions: Fiscal Issues and Policy Options
Genser, Bernd; Holzmann, Robert - 2016
of retirement savings remains mostly unattended and the taxation of internationally portable pensions is terra incognita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431244
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Taxing Pensions of an Internationally Mobile Labor Force: Portability Issues and Taxation Options
Holzmann, Robert - 2016
rights. While the portability of pensions and other social benefits has received some analytical attention over the recent … virtually none for the taxation of internationally portable pensions. For both national and international taxation of pensions … internationally portable pensions mixes notional front-loaded taxation (as the tax due on contributions/savings is deferred) with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431256
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Do bilateral social security agreements deliver on the portability of pensions and health care benefits? A summary policy paper on four migration corridors between EU and non-EU me...
Holzmann, Robert - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-35
This policy paper summarizes four corridor studies on bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) between four European Union (EU) member and two nonmember states, draws conclusions on their results, and offers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries are...
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Frontloaded Income Taxation of Old-Age Pensions: For Efficiency and Fairness in a World of International Labor Mobility
Genser, Bernd; Holzmann, Robert - 2018
approach for the taxation of old-age pensions in a world of high and increasing cross-border mobility of workers and pensioners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018114
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NDC Schemes and Heterogeneity in Longevity: Proposals for Redesign
Holzmann, Robert; Alonso-García, Jennifer; … - 2017
Strong and rising empirical evidence across countries finds that longevity is highly heterogeneous in key socioeconomic characteristics, including income. A positive relationship between lifetime income and life expectancy at retirement amounts to a straight tax/subsidy mechanism when the...
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