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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …
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assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …
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the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …
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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 … out to be less likely to save additionally privately for retirement. In a second step the chosen gross saving rates are …
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Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …
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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …
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I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …
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I contribute new evidence on altruistic preferences in intergenerational transfers using variation in Social Security benefits induced by an inflation-indexing mistake. The instrument is most relevant for those with low education, so I focus on this group. I find support for pure altruism...
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concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … singles only this implies distortions of retirement decision and restricts redistribution across genders. With couples, a … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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