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its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The … changes are also detected: a college spike and a retirement dip in poverty across the age distribution. The alleviation of …
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The accuracy of information about coverage and contributions to defined contribution (DC) pension plans is important in understanding the economic well-being of future retirees because these plans are an increasingly important part of retirement income security. Using data from the 1996 and 2004...
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The approaching retirement of the baby boom generation has attracted both research and public policy attention. Many changes occurred during the second half of the twentieth century, changes likely to affect the retirement economic security of recent cohorts. Using data from the Health and...
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This article uses a microsimulation model to estimate how freezing all remaining private-sector and one-third of all public-sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans over the next 5 years would affect retirement incomes of baby boomers. If frozen plans were supplemented with new or enhanced...
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Changes in American family and work patterns over the past decades have prompted various policy proposals for changing the structure of Social Security benefits. In this article, we use the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT) microsimulation model to project...
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model assumptions regarding: 1) the relative magnitudes of the population growth rate and the real rate of return on private …
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In recent years the aggregate savings ratio in Germany has declined. The basic causes are, above all, the rise in … and increases in the overall cost of living. Underlying the aggregate savings ratio one finds a substantial dispersion …. With rising income the savings-income ratio increases. In addition, the type of social insurance influences the level of …
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age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …
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