Showing 1 - 10 of 2,965
This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405524
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249050
contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870250
Since 1984, Social Security beneficiaries with total income exceeding certain thresholds have been required to pay federal income tax on some of their benefit income. Because those income thresholds have remained unchanged while wages have increased, the proportion of beneficiaries who must pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002697
This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251539
contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994093
pressures to expand the coverage of public pensions and raise pension benefits will likely increase. The first objective of this … paper is to identify the potential fiscal burden of public pensions in 23 emerging Asian economies, based on econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659823
This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region … average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they provide pensions above what workers would have obtained by investing … replacement rates (pensions relative to earnings) for low-income workers. Despite this progressivity, in some countries, absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545279
from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low due to low spending on the old (pensions, health care) and the young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524903
This paper presents the results of the actuarial valuation method Projected Unit Credit ("benefits/years of service") in order to assess the effects of the public sector downsizing on real economy and social security in Greece, using a prototype data set. We found a social security loss of about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469137