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the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …
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hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …
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hundred age brackets and we investigate how changes in the birth rates, survival rates, and the retirement age affect the …
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully funded occupational pension systems, and mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go. The specific mixture of the three systems we will call the pension composition....
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extensive and intensive labour supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to … fertility decline, a retirement reform, designed to increase labour supply at the extensive margin, is found to simultaneously … reduce labour supply at the intensive margin. This backlash to retirement reform requires the statutory retirement age to …
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mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time - and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …
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We propose a unified framework to measure the effects of different reforms of the pension system on retirement ages and … retirement decisions are explicitly modeled within a public pension system. Heterogeneity with respect to consumption preferences … behavior of households, we observe that feedback effects do occur. Results suggest that individual retirement decisions are …
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İmrohoroğlu, İmrohoroğlu and Joines [1995, A life-cycle analysis of Social Security, Economic Theory, vol. 6, 83-114] show that the optimal replacement ratio of the pay-as-you-go public pension system in the US economy amounts to 30%. We extend their analysis to a model that 1) replicates...
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This paper investigates the effects of increasing the eligibility age for public pension on workers' retirement …
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In this paper we model an OLG-economy where labour supply is endogenously determined and where we assume that there are two pension systems, namely, a pay-as-you-go system and a funded system. The main question is whether there is an equilibrium involving an old-age pensions system, partly...
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