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Who is Saving Privately for Retirement and How Much? - New Evidence for Germany
Metzger, Christoph - 2016
decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one's standard of … living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a …
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Pensions in transition in EU11 countries between 1990 and 2015
Domonkos, Stefan; Simonovits, András - 2016
This paper surveys the most significant problems of the pension systems of EU11 countries. These nations had to transform their old-age social security systems after replacing a state-socialist economic order with a capitalist one. Stressing common as well as specific features, our paper...
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Beyond the Privatisation and Re-Nationalisation of the Argentine Pension System : Coverage, Fragmentation, and Sustainability
Bertranou, Fabio - 2013
In the last decades, the pension system in Argentina has experienced important changes that included the introduction of an individual account defined-contribution component (or individual capitalisation) in 1994 and its subsequent reversal to a defined benefit pay-as-you-go pension scheme in...
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Made Poorer by Choice : Worker Outcomes in Social Security v. Private Retirement Accounts
Ahmed, Javed - 2014
Can the freedom to choose how retirement funds are invested leave workers worse off? We analyze social risks of allowing choice, using the Social Security system as an example. Comparing a privatized alternative with the current system via simulation, we document that choice in both equity...
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Changes in the pension system : lessons for privatisation in the UK
Booth, P.; Niemietz, Kristian - In: Estudios de economía aplicada : revista promovida por … 33 (2015) 3, pp. 659-686
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Does pension privatization increase economic growth? : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe
Altiparmakov, Nikola; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2016
privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These …
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Effects of Social Security Reform on Private and National Saving
Engen, Eric M. - 2014
Social Security is the largest federal government spending program and one of the most popular. The earmarked payroll taxes that finance Social Security currently exceed benefit payments. By the end of 1996, the Social Security trust fund had accumulated about $566 billion in assets and was...
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Pensions and power : the political and market dynamics of public pension plans
Kolasi, Erald - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 46-80
This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that … enormous investment fees associated with it. I propose that the deconstruction of public pensions is part of a larger effort to …
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(Partial) privatization social security : the Chilean model - a lesson to follow?
Eisen, Roland - 2000
, and the effects on the savings rate as well as on the rates of return and labor market are discussed. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767697
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Social security with rational and hyperbolic consumers
Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian; Kindermann, Fabian - 2006
The present paper studies the role of social security in an economy populated by overlapping generations of individuals that have time-consistent or time-inconsistent preferences, face mortality and individual income risk, borrowing constraints as well as progressive income taxes. Our...
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