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In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savingsdecisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded bya combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution.Employees can also make tax-deferred...
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A deferred annuity typically includes an option-like right for thepolicyholder. At the end of the deferment period, he … may either choose toreceive annuity payouts, calculated based on a mortality table agreed to atcontract inception, or … annuity on the marketgranting him a better price. If, however, mortality improves more thanexpected, the policyholder will …
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We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on themacroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlappinggenerationsmodel is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortalityprocess. Individual agents choose their optimal...
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Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the jobexit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker’s characteristics thatalso determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of...
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We prove that for any incomplete market and any concave utilityfunction the marginal propensities to consume and to save are alwayspositive. Furthermore, we introduce a class of incomplete markets thatincludes almost all well known examples of market incompleteness infinance and macroeconomics....
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This paper argues that observations of non-stationary choice behavior need notnecessarily imply specific properties of the individual’s discount function. As weshow, the observed “anomalies” in intertemporal choice can alternatively be explained by an individual’s perception of the risk...
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Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measuredhearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing losson receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing...
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Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the EuropeanCommunity Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariatecompeting-risks hazard model is...
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The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult forolder workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An importantsource of rigidity is restrictions on hours of work imposed by firms that use team productionor face high fixed...
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This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect onolder workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel datafor the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employedmale workers can...
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