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The pension transfer program
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
to intergenerational conflict. Let people with rights to public pensions have the option of using a portion of their … potential pensions to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The policy is entirely voluntary; only those … to draw their public pensions and the employers have the right not to employ them. In effect, the policy involves taking …
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Pension reforms and women retirement plans
Boeri, Tito; Brugiavini, Agar - 2008
eligibility to pensions indeed reduce the responsiveness of women to changes in pension rules. This explains why, contrary to a …
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
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Pensions in a shrinking economy
Kuné, Jan B. - In: Pensions : an international journal 16 (2011) 1, pp. 21-32
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Will future pensioners have sufficient income to meet their needs?
Curry, Chris - In: Pensions : an international journal 15 (2010) 4, pp. 268-275
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Choosers, users, winners and losers : observations on defined contribution
Aston, Nigel - In: Pensions : an international journal 16 (2011) 4, pp. 235-243
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Meeting the migrant pension challenge in China : portability of social benefits
Lu, Bei; Piggott, John - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 2, pp. 438-464
This article proposes a notional defined contribution (NDC) mechanism to ensure pension mobility for the 150 million migrating workers in China during both the accumulation and drawdown phases. Planned governance would ensure independence from the three existing pension systems. An appropriately...
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The politics of pension reform under ageing
Leers, Theo; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, Harrie - 2001
In this paper we address the question whether in case of population ageing a transition from an unfunded to a more funded pension scheme is politically feasible in a representative democracy. We consider two parties: a right-wing party which is willing to trade off intragenerational equity...
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Self-employment around retirement age
Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
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Overviewing the findings : the technical panel review of the pension insurance modeling system
Mitchell, Olivia S. - In: Journal of pension economics and finance 14 (2015) 2, pp. 115-124
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