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As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
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Subjective expectations about future policy play an important role in individuals' welfare. We examine how workers' expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information cost, and aggregate information acquisition. We construct a new pan-European dataset of reform...
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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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We use a large-scale representative survey of households from October 19-21 that elicits respondents’ expectations about the presidential election’s outcome as well as their economic expectations to document several new facts. First, people disagreed strongly about the likely outcome of the...
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duration until retirement entry and (ii) on the duration until exit from gainful employment. I estimate discrete time duration … identified. The permanent reduction of retirement benefit amounts causes a postponement of retirement entry by about fifteen … months and a delay of employment exit by about nine months on average. -- retirement insurance ; labor force participation …
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This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the … comprehensive microsimulation model of the Austrian pension system is developed and applied to calculate retirement benefit …
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