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Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain
Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2002
This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household...
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Expectations and Saving Behavior: An Empirical Analysis
Arent, Stefan - 2012
studies. We use aunique panel data set on household savings. We find that that a higher unemploymentexpectation significantly … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and … savings. Moreover,we find that good health expectations increase savings in Western Germany, butdecrease the savings in …
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Asynchronous risk: Unemployment, equity markets, and retirement savings
Seligman, Jason S.; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - 2005
percentage losses in retirement savings as a result of more frequent spells of unemployment. Higher income worker losses are more …
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Pension reform, retirement and life-cycle unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2007
age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions …
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A simulation method to measure the tax burden on highly skilled manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2006
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between employment costs and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent benefit...
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Total reward in the UK in the public and private sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J. - 2011
comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as …
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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure
Durevall, Dick; Henrekson, Magnus - 2010
This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner's Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom....
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What is a public sector pension worth?
Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2007
We measure accruals in defined benefit (DB) pension plans for public and private sector workers in Britain, using typical differences in scheme rules and sector-specific lifetime age-earnings profiles by sex and educational group. We show not just that coverage by DB pension plans is greater in...
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Future Prospects for Notional Defined Contribution Schemes
Williamson, John B. - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 19-24
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Europe: Is There an Aging Crisis or is it a Public Pension Problem?
Disney, Richard - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 25-30
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