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Early Retirement and Social Security : A Long-Term Perspective
Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, J.; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2021
We provide a long-term perspective on the individual retirement behaviour and on the future of retirement. In a … equilibrium with positive social security contribution rates and early retirement. Aging has two opposite effects: it leads to … the existence of crucial income effects: a decrease of the income of young people will induce them to postpone retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318158
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Age Before Beauty? Productivity and Work vs. Seniority and Early Retirement
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2011
We show how the age profile of earnings, retirement rules and retirement behavior are tightly linked through the … paper theoretically rationalizes the links between retirement rules and the wage structures over the life cycle and uses … data on European countries to show how social security taxes, the age profile of earnings, and retirement behavior are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122324
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The Evolution of Retirement
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, J. - 2005
We provide a long term perspective on the individual retirement behavior and on the future of early retirement. In a … cross-country sample, we find that total pension spending depends positively on the degree of early retirement and on the … converging to a steady state and early retirement. Comparative statics suggest that aging and productivity slow-downs lead to …
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455532
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016 - March 2016, revised May 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482705
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Chapter 32 Social security
Feldstein, Martin; Liebman, Jeffrey B. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2245-2324). 2002
This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security pensions. The first part of the chapter discusses pure pay-as-you-go plans. It considers the effects of introducing such a plan on the present value of consumption, the optimal level of benefits in such plans,...
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The impact of social security eligibility and pension wealth on retirement
Sæverud, Johan - 2024
wealth. This pattern is consistent across multiple retirement age thresholds and cohorts, including both individuals who have …
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398074
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Spousal and survivor benefits in option value models of retirement : an application to Belgium
Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - 2016
We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543602
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Endogenous demographic change, retirement and social security
Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2019
contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994093