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aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the …
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aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the …
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aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the …
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may serve as an effective tool to share aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, first … social security does indeed represent a Pareto improving reform, if households are both fairly risk-averse and fairly willing … overturns these gains for degrees of risk aversion and intertemporal elasticity of substitution commonly used in the literature. …
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aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176438
This paper analyzes the quantitative role of idiosyncratic uncertainty in an economy in which rational agents vote on hypothetical social security reforms. We find that the role of a pay-as-you-go social security system as a partial insurance and redistribution device significantly reduces...
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In all major industrialized countries the population is aging over time, reducing the fraction of the population in working age. Consequently labor is expected to be scarce, relative to capital, with an ensuing decline in real returns on capital and increases in real wages. This paper employs a...
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hypothetical social security reforms. We construct an Overlapping Generations economy in which individuals face idiosuncratic risk …
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aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the …
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In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic and distributional effects using a quantitative overlapping generations model calibrated using German micro data to replicate education and productivity differentials between...
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