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Distributive Effects of Israel's Pension System
Brender, Adi - 2010
This paper examines several aspects of Israel's restructured retirement benefits system, focusing on distributive … Allowances program's contributions and disbursements on the lifetime income distribution, net replacement rates at retirement and … loss for many low-income households, unsmooth their consumption and lead to "too high" post-retirement net replacement …
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Mental Retirement and Non-Contributory Pensions for the Elderly Poor in Peru
Novella, Rafael - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of retirement on cognitive abilities for the elderly poor on the basis of the “mental … retirement” effect that accompanies retirement. Given the recent emergence and expansion of non-contributory pension programs to … baseline for a non-contributory pension program. We find a significant negative effect of retirement on cognitive ability after …
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Lohnrisiko und Altersarmut im Sozialstaat
Nagl, Wolfgang - 2014
Löhne und gesetzliche Rentenansprüche sind über das Sozialversicherungssystem direkt miteinander verbunden. In dieser Dissertationsschrift werden zunächst Lohnrisiken analysiert, um dann das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Nach einer Einführung werden in Kapitel 2 die...
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How Hard Should We Push the Poor to Save for Retirement?
Biggs, Andrew G. - 2019
Retirement Accounts (IRAs) workers who are not offered a retirement plan by their employer. These programs are designed to … address a perceived shortfall of retirement saving, particularly among low-wage workers who are less likely to be offered an … save more for retirement? Will state-run auto-IRA plans increase net household savings? And, after accounting for …
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Old-age poverty : the household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: 11 February 2019
perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265643
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Old-Age Poverty : The Household Perspective; A Microsimulation Approach of Pension Entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019
perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863219
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Old-age Poverty in OECD Countries and the Issue of Gender Pension Gaps
Haitz, Natascha - In: CESifo DICE Report 13 (2015) 2, pp. 73-75
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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel
Hemmings, Philip - 2010
Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444015
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Not that basic : how level, design and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income
Aerts, Elise; Marx, Ive; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2023
Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential...
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Basic income advocates, sober up
Marx, Ive - 2024
Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a world with a sizeable basic income would look like but we can...
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