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of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially … assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … savings to counter the effect of the reform. These workers, who are generally in worse health, have zero substitution rates …
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effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187718
We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a...
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To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
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To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362934
The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...
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This article estimates the financial return provided by the Spanish pension system for a sample of new retirees in 2017, calculated on the basis of the Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales. The findings show an average real annual return (understood as the discount factor that equates the present...
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of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large … savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth year. This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to assess … the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427616