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public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it … bequests, lowers investment, and thereby lowers the rate of physical capital accumulation. Third, it may lead the median voter …
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Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …
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This paper considers savings, investment and economic growth for India using annual time series data for the period …-Weil hypothesis; the study also finds that saving unambiguously determines investment in both the short and long runs. No evidence is … found to support the commonly accepted growth models in India, that investment is the engine of economic growth. …
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taxation on labor supply and savings; corrective taxes for externalities; taxation and corporate behavior; and tax expenditure …
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Our study uses the data collected during the implementation of the tobacco buyout program inKentucky to evaluate how rural households, diverse in income, age, family structure, location,education level, and other characteristics, made a choice between annuities and a lump-sumpayment. Subjects in...
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annuity must suffer lower benefits for a longer time than a man. In short, if one looks either at the periodic outlay by the … insured or at the income available to the beneficiary under an annuity, gender-based pricing appears to be quite at odds with … annuity is that people care more about income than about lump sum values. Thus, even though the present value of a man's death …
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Ideologies about social policy. The national Health Insurance in 1995 and the Plan for the Pension are the clear examples for the …
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) that may be utilized as part of individual pension plans. The developments in Great Britain and in Germany are compared …, economic regime and retirement pension7 State-aided promotion in Germany8 State-aided promotion in Great Britain9 Findings and …
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This paper examines the possible causes of the nationwide unfunded public pension liability problem in the U.S., and …’ pension systems, a specific analysis of the Rhode Island public pension system will be conducted. Through this investigation …
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(TSP) is the largest defined contribution retirement savings and investment plan, with nearly 3.6 million participants and … in achieving their retirement savings and investment objectives. Furthermore, we propose two new portfolio performance … distribution and uses additional information that may be present in higher moments.The federal government's Thrift Savings Plan …
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