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This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …
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What is the optimal retirement age? This paper looks at the optimal retirement age from various perspectives. Most of … the current pension laws relating to retirement age were codified decades ago, and they have become badly out of date … retirement decisions. This paper provides some background about demography, health, and retirement; summarizes how current …
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While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
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Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement …
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effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …
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effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that retirement behavior is strongly influenced by the level of disincentives. Further, disincentives …
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We study the influence of family members, neighbors and coworkers on retirement behavior. To estimate causal retirement …' retirement ages, and we use administrative data on the full Dutch population. We find large spillovers in couples, primarily due … to women reacting to their husband's retirement choices. Consistent with homophily in social interactions, the influence …
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van Groezen, Leers and Meijdam (2003) (for short, GLM) analyzed combination of public pension and child support in an OLG model. We impose credit constraint on workers, and extend GLM's analysis from the case where workers do not understand the cost also to the case where they do. GLM's infinite...
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Pension reforms have been high on the political agenda in many developed countries over recent years and pension issues have been discussed intensely in the public as a result. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to make state, public and private pension systems fiscally more...
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We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...
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