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Pension funds in sub-Saharan Africa
Nyang`oro, Owen; Njenga, Githinji - 2022
provides elderly assistance and is a source of savings for long-term investment. The pension systems in SSA, however, are …
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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?
Caliendo, Frank - 2009
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
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Role of Social Security in Explaining the Rate of Saving Disparity : A Historical Study of New Zealand versus Singapore: 1960-1993
Bandyopadhyay, Debasis - 2017
This paper provides evidence to argue that the difference in the social security schemes of two countries may help explain the disparity in their saving rates. We examine the argument by limiting our focus to a comparison of New Zealand and Singapore for the period 1960–1993. We choose the...
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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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Does social security crowd out private savings? : the case of Bismarck’s system of social insurance
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Streb, Jochen - 2017
article closes this gap by analyzing the development of Prussian savings banks’ deposits in the late 19th century with the … savings considerably. As counterfactual voluntary savings would have been far from sufficient, however, Bismarck’s social …
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Does social security crowd out private savings? : the case of Bismarck’s system of social insurance
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Streb, Jochen - 2016
article tries to close this gap by analyzing the development of Prussian savings banks' deposits in the late 19th century. The … introduction of social security can affect private savings in at least two different ways: on the one hand, it might induce … households to reduce their precautionary savings; one the other hand, it might give people a reason to reflect on their financial …
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Who cares about the day after tomorrow? : pension issues when households are myopic or fime inconsistent
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Härtl, Klaus; Leite, Duarte - 2017
particularly relevant for the quickly aging Asian economies: the volume of savings for old-age provisions, international … diversification of retirement savings, and global spillover effects of pension reforms. …
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Search for Financial Returns and Social Security Privatization
McKay, Alisdair - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 2, pp. 253-270
I develop a general equilibrium model in which the quality of household financial decisions is endogenously determined by the incentives to exert effort in learning about financial opportunities. The model generates predictions for asset market participation and returns across households....
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Chapter 13. Social Security and Public Insurance
Börsch-Supan, A.; Härtl, K.; Leite, D.N. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 781-863). 2016
When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...
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Social security pension generosity and the effect on household saving
Halvorsen, Elin; Jia, Zhiyang; Kruse, Herman; Vigtel, … - 2022
This paper examines the substitution between pension wealth and household saving by studying Norway's 2011 pension reform. The analysis identifies the effect of reductions in social security pension generosity on household saving using cohort, time and sector variation in pension wealth induced...
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