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This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the adoption of various components of social security systems as well as contribution rates. Apart from economic determinants of the adoption, the empirical analysis features determinants relating to countries' political systems and contagion. We...
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …
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This article examines the 2012 poverty status of Social Security adult type of benefit (TOB) groups using both the official poverty measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). For each TOB group the article compares the SPM estimate with the official poverty measure estimate. In...
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Since 1984, Social Security beneficiaries with total income exceeding certain thresholds have been required to pay federal income tax on some of their benefit income. Because those income thresholds have remained unchanged while wages have increased, the proportion of beneficiaries who must pay...
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This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251539
contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994093
pressures to expand the coverage of public pensions and raise pension benefits will likely increase. The first objective of this … paper is to identify the potential fiscal burden of public pensions in 23 emerging Asian economies, based on econometric …
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This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region … average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they provide pensions above what workers would have obtained by investing … replacement rates (pensions relative to earnings) for low-income workers. Despite this progressivity, in some countries, absolute …
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