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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703163
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Maintaining One's Living Standard at Old Age: What Does that Mean? Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany
Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2013
How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period....
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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703380
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Pension Provision and Retirement Saving: Lessons from the United Kingdom
Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl; Wakefield, Matthew - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007
We describe the trajectory of pension reform in the United Kingdom, which has focussed on keeping the cost of public pension programmes down during a period of steady population ageing whilst attempting to maintain an adequate minimum level of income security for low income households in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763302
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Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2007
We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094360
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Profitability of Pension Contributions: Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies
Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
partner. Due to survivor pensions, married insurants benefit from higher IRR as compared to the non-married. Interestingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645019
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005
public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or not, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518904
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General-Equilibrium Effects of Privatisation : The Missing Piece in Social Security Reform
van Groezen, Bas; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002
-sector model, leading to a different conclusion about the desirability of unfunded pensions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090643
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Social Security Reform and Population Ageing in a Two-Sector Growth Model
van Groezen, Bas; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002
This paper analyses the effects of reducing unfunded social security and population ageing on economic growth and welfare, both for a small open economy and for a closed economy.The economy consists of a service sector and a commodity sector.Productivity growth only occurs in the latter sector...
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Rates of return and early retirement disincentives: Evidence from a German pension reform
Lüthen, Holger - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2014
To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
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