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on the labour market in eight European countries (Denmark France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland and the … – Specific questions will be more acute with the effective postponement of retirement: increasing inequalities between groups of … older workers, increasing uncertainty about the age of retirement, the way to keep lower educated workers in their jobs …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of self-assessed health on retirement plans of older … migrants living in France. As immigration is primarily associated with labor considerations, the role of economic incentives in …/methodology/approach – Using detailed data on immigrants living in France collected in 2003, the authors examine the role of health on early …
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Nach Meinung von Hans Fehr, Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Universität Würzburg, belastet der aktuelle Gesetzentwurf zur Reform der Rentenversicherung pauschal die Beitragszahler, konterkariert die eingeleitete Anhebung des Rentenzugangsalters und hilft nur wenig gegen die künftig...
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This paper presents a technical note on Mexico’s Financial Sector Assessment Program update. The Mexican experience displays interesting characteristics that provide lessons for other countries that still need to design the decumulation phase of their newly established second pillars. The...
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This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are...
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This paper provides detailed empirical evidence on the saving behavior of Irish households using micro data from the 1994/95 and 1999/2000 Household Budget Surveys. I employ synthetic cohort techniques to characterize the life cycle profile of saving rates and to examine the response of...
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During the transition process, many existing social sector institutions and policies were significantly eroded and their underlying character changed. As a result, they often do not redistribute to the poorest, nor generally serve the role of facilitating economic change. Social sector reforms...
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In this paper we raise the question, as to whether retirement is lost as we currently know it in Canada. Here we look … at the retirement research according to the scope of retirement and the new retirement, possible theoretical developments …, the timing of transitions into retirement and life as a retiree including the quality of pensions. On the basis of this …
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away from individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Although the idea is provocative, we conclude that the notion of “moving …
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