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Geplante Rentenreform: Größere Gerechtigkeit oder falsches Signal?
Fehr, Hans; Werding, Martin; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Boss, … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 05, pp. 03-25
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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Mexico; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note: The Pension Annuity Market
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
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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Netherlands; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1996
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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Who Saves in Ireland? T+L3251he Micro Evidence
Badia, Marialuz Moreno - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
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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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Keller, Christian; Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
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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Retirement Lost?
McDonald, Lynn; Donahue, Peter - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012
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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Is Prescott right? Welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn, and retire
Jacobs, Bas - In: International Tax and Public Finance 16 (2009) 2, pp. 253-280
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Public Pension Reform: A Primer
Jousten, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper … heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in … retirement. …
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This Selected Issues paper highlights that the authorities in the Republic of Korea recognize the pension policy challenges ahead, and a first wave of reforms has already been launched. Despite the reforms to date, much remains to be done. Without further reforms, the public pension systems in...
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Pension Reform in China; The Need for a New Approach
Dunaway, Steven Vincent; Arora, Vivek B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The rapid aging of China's population over the next few decades makes it important for a new pension system with broad and adequate coverage to be put in place quickly. Pension reforms, first initiated in 1997, have become bogged down in difficulties over dealing with the "legacy costs"...
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