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Informality, saving and wealth inequality in Colombia
Granda Carvajal, Catalina; Hamann S., Franz A. - 2015
The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms and how these might influence aggregate savings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290050
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Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market : Evidence from Chile
Joubert, Clement Jean Edouard - 2014
formal jobs rationing is limited and that mandatory pension contributions play an sizeable role in encouraging informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052709
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Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market : Evidence from Chile
Joubert, Clement Jean Edouard - 2014
formal jobs rationing is limited and that mandatory pension contributions play an sizeable role in encouraging informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053694
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Informality, Saving and Wealth Inequality in Colombia
Granda, Catalina - 2015
The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms and how these might influence aggregate savings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025922
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Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278632
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Mapping the minds of retirement planners
Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2006
This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349213
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Savings, child support, pensions and endogenous (and heterogeneous) fertility
Simonovits, András - 2013
decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193875
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Breaking the implicit contract : using pension freezes to study lifetime labor supply
Patki, Dhiren - 2021 - This version: June 2021
This paper studies the elimination of traditional pensions and subsequent adoption of 401(k) plans by U.S. employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592204
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A model for personal financial planning towards retirement
Herrador-Alcaide, Teresa C.; Hernández-Solís, Montserrat - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 2, pp. 482-502
One problem for sustainability of systems pensions is how people without specialized financial training could manage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506177
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Pensions, household saving, and welfare : a dynamic analysis of crowd out
Blau, David - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 193-224
saving by public and private pensions. Some parameters of the model are estimated and others are calibrated to match life … benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pensions on average crowd out household wealth by $ 0 09 and $ 0 37 per dollar of …) generally resulting in larger simulated crowd out. A welfare analysis implies that DB pensions and Social Security are not …
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