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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social …

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A simulation method to measure the tax burden on highly skilled manpower

Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2006

A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between employment costs and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent benefit...

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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary

Simonovits, András - 2006

The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...

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The commitment value of prefunded pensions

Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015

This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot … commit. We focus on sustainable plans, where optimal nonlinear pensions are not reneged on by sequential governments …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces …

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Population aging, social security and fiscal limits

Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018

We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...

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Baseline results from EUROMOD : 2006 - 2009 policies

Avram, Silvia; Sutherland, Holly - 2012

microsimulation model of taxes and benefits in the EU. After giving a brief account of the process of constructing EUROMOD, we present … that should be borne in mind when using it and interpreting results. -- microsimulation ; redistribution ; tax …

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Earnings Sharing in the U.S. Social Security System : A Microsimulation Analysis of Future Female Retirees

Iams, Howard - 2010

As part of an ongoing effort to analyze the distributional implications of potential policy reforms to the U.S. Social Security system, we consider the widely discussed reform of earnings sharing. Such an approach has been viewed as a way to “update” Social Security's family benefits based...

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The Changing Economic Status of U.S. Disabled Men : Trends and Their Determinants, 1982-1991

Haveman, Robert; Holden, Karen; Wolfe, Barbara; Smith, Paul - 2000

We track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits in 1980-81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991. We present measures of the economic well-being of disabled individuals and their...

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection ; ageing ; demographics ; microsimulation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455

Household saving behavior: The role of literacy, information and financial education programs

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2007

-Americans and Hispanics. Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298377

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