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Aging, saving, and public pensions in Japan
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Suzuki, Wataru; Hatta, Tatsuo - 2007
We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan's population can explain the level of, and past and...
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …
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Housing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE
Scobie, Grant; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John - 2007
Housing is an important sector of the economy. It has widespread implications for investment, banking, saving and employment. Home ownership has been linked to building social capital and a sense of community. Furthermore housing equity is a significant element of retirement accumulation for...
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Pensions, Savings and Housing: A Life-cycle Framework with Policy Simulations
Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Scobie, Grant - 2014
pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115681
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Finanzielle Konsequenzen eines universellen Systems der gesetzlichen Alterssicherung
Meinhardt, Volker; Kirner, Ellen; Grabka, Markus; … - 2002
Das Rentenversicherungssystem wird infolge der demographischen Entwicklung auch in Zukunft unter erheblichem Druck stehen. Wenn immer weniger Erwerbstätige die Rente von immer mehr Rentnerinnen und Rentnern finanzieren müssen, wird dies bei gleichbleibendem Rentenniveau zu steigenden...
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Werden die Kosten der Alterung gerecht verteilt? Vorteile eines stabilen Rentenniveaus und einer Erwerbstätigenversicherung
Zwiener, Rudolf; Blank, Florian; Logeay, Camille - 2020
fortsetzt. Daher halten wir Forderungen nach einer Stärkung der privaten Altersvorsorge für inadäquat, um die Alterungskosten … Gerechtigkeitsdefizit in der Altersvorsorge beseitigt. Gegenüber der Alternative von Beitragssatzsteigerungen bei gleichzeitigen …
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Kein Grund zur Freude: Rentenversicherungspflicht für Selbständige
Fachinger, Uwe - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 4, pp. 217-218
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Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
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Improving the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off: Mandatory Savings Accounts for Social Insurance
Bovenberg, Lars; Birch Sørensen, Peter - 2003
savings accounts. We analyze the behavioral and welfare effects of compulsory savings accounts in an intertemporal model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320895
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Currency hedging and the Danish pension sector
Steffensen, Sigurd Anders Muus; Jensen, Birthe Merethe; … - 2024
The ratio of pension assets to GDP in Denmark is the highest among OECD countries. Danish pension funds invest more than half of the country's pension wealth in foreign assets, giving rise to exchange rate risks that are managed using financial instruments. We study the currency hedging...
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