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Demographics, Old-Age Transfers and the Current Account

Dao, Mai - 2019

Building on the evolving literature on the topic, this paper reviews the relationship between demographics and long-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where countries differ in their population growth and...

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Tax-Deferred Savings and Early Retirement

Pang, Gaobo - 2008

reveal that conventional savings (CSAs) serve mainly for liquidity and TDAs for retirement and bequests. The tax incentives … are generally effective in stimulating new savings for the middle and upper income groups. TDAs facilitates wealth … accumulation, which perhaps unintentionally encourages earlier retirement. TDAs fail to induce new savings and affect the …

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Searching for Better Prospects : Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage

Friedberg, Leora - 2008

Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. New evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar period....

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Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits : facts, concepts, issues

Holzmann, Robert; Koettl, Johannes - 2011

Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...

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Frontloaded income taxation of old-age pensions : for efficiency and fairness in a world of international labor mobility

Genser, Bernd; Holzmann, Robert - 2018

Strong evidence shows that the existing pattern of cross-border pension taxation in OECD countries and beyond is extremely diverse and inconsistent, generating a double fairness dilemma for individuals and countries alike. This paper argues that this dilemma cannot be solved within the current...

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Migration, location and provision of support to old-age parents : the case of Romania

Zimmer, Zachary; Rada, Codrina; Stoica, Catalin Augustin - 2013

The combined demographic developments of population aging and high rates of migration of young adults are consequential for older parents who face a potential decline in support from adult children. These developments also impact the lives of migrant adults who face the challenge of providing...

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Economic Impact of Elderly Migration and Pension Transfers

Bobeva, Daniela - 2019

This article focuses on an insufficiently studied topic in the literature – elderly migration and associated economic effects and changes of population structure. Studied are the reasons and factors for the positive migration balance of population aged 50+ in Bulgaria, as well as the different...

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Are Dutch old-age pensions taxed fairly and efficiently?

Genser, Bernd; Holzmann, Robert - 2020

The Dutch pension system is internationally top-ranked as a well-designed three-pillar system. Moreover, almost all forms of pension benefits are expenditure taxed in line with the European Commission's recommendations. Consequently, the Dutch pension policy approach could be regarded as a...

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Pay-as-they-get-in : attitudes towards migrants and pension systems

Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023

We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how,...

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Pay-as-they-get-in : Attitudes towards Migrants and Pension Systems

Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023

We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257085

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