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Liu, Kai - 2011

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Sustainable social security : four options

Kitao, Sagiri - 2011

encourage own savings, and capital stock is more than 10 percent higher than in the other two options. The payroll tax increase …

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The rationale for fundamental pension reform in Germany and the United States : an assessment

Burtless, Gary - 2001

This paper considers the arguments for fundamental pension reform in Germany and the United States. The two countries have recently made or are considering reforms that would reduce the generosity of the traditional, pay-as-you-go pension system. Some or all of the lost benefits would be...

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Public Pension Reform in Europe and the USA

Francese, Maura - 2012

The reform of pension systems is on the political agenda in most European countries and in the USA. The paper considers the main factors underlying the reform process and examines the reforms introduced in recent years and those currently under discussion in order to trace common features, but...

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Implications of Delaying U.S. Social Security Financing Reform : A Look at the Measurement, Structural and Generational Issues

Schieber, Sylvester J. - 2017

In this paper, we explore the underlying explanations for the under financing of the U.S. Social Security pension system that has persisted since the late 1980s despite repeated calls for reform by the program's trustees and various advisory groups. Both micro and macro estimates of the cost...

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Reforming the Second Tier of the U.S. Pension System : Tabula Rasa or Step by Step?

Mackenzie, George A. (Sandy); Forman, Jonathan Barry - 2021

, does not guarantee that retirement savings will be adequate; in fact, many 401(k) plan participants do not take full … few do. Indeed, there has been a significant decline in annuitization of retirement savings by workers. The shift to 401(k … annuities could provide them with very valuable insurance against living too long. How much a household should save for …

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The Rationale for Fundamental Pension Reform in the Germany and the United States : An Assessment

Burtless, Gary - 2021

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Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security Reforms

Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur - 2021

The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...

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The best indexation of public pensions : the point system

Simonovits, András - 2018

We reconsider the problem of indexation of public pensions, emphasizing that similar contribution paths should imply similar benefit paths. This robustness criterion is only satisfied by full wage indexing, which in turn requires the politically unpopular reduction of the accrual rates. To...

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Social Security Reform in the United States

Samwick, Andrew A. - 2010

This paper simulates a transition from the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system to a prefunded system based on Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs). Annual PRA contributions of 2 percent of taxable payroll earning the historical return on the corporate sector are sufficient to close the...

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