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The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions : VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany
Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was tested, social security is thus good for growth. A...
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Dynamic Interaction Between Savings, Investment and Economic Growth in Nigeria : A Vector Autoregressive (Var) Approach
Omoregie, Osaretin Kayode - 2020
The study investigated the dynamic interaction between savings, investment and economic growth in Nigeria within the …, should ensure that the savings with deposit money banks are properly channelled to long-term investment. The study further … attention to the dynamic interaction between GDS, and GDI by ensuring that the savings generated are properly channelled to …
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Means testing and Social Security in the United States
Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91
This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...
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Retirement Savings and Tax Expenditure Estimates
Xanthopoulos, Judy; Schmitt, Mary M. - 2011
flow method does not measure the actual benefits of retirement savings contributions. As a result, the paper recommends … that estimates for retirement savings be prepared on a present-value basis, which would help policymakers understand the … lifetime tax benefits of retirement savings and allow an “apples to apples” comparison with tax expenditures such as current …
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Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions
Bairoliya, Neha; McKiernan, Kathleen - 2021
-cycle model of consumption, savings, labor supply, and Social Security application decisions as well as heterogeneity in education …
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Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2003
This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic stochastic model of the way individuals make retirement and saving choices in an uncertain world, and applies that model to analyze the effects of the stock market bubble on retirement behavior. The model includes individual variation both...
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Precautionary Saving and Health Risk : Evidence from Italian Households Using a Time Series of Cross Sections
Atella, Vincenzo; Rosati, Furio C.; Rossi, Maria Christina - 2005
In this paper we analyse the importance of precautionary saving in Italy. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on …
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Superior Information, Income Shocks and the Permanent Income Hypothesis
Pistaferri, Luigi - 1999
According to the permanent income hypothesis with quadratic preferences, savings should react only to transitory income …
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Jointly determined saving and fertility behaviour : theory, and estimates for Germany, Italy, UK and USA
Cigno, Alessandro - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 8, pp. 1561-1589
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The effect of public pensions on women's labor market participation over a full life cycle
Sánchez Marcos, Virginia; Bethencourt, Carlos - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 707-733
households decide on female labor supply and savings. One important aspect of our model is that we allow for returns to labor …
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