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Policy discussions on pension systems generally focus on their sustainability and design, including retirement age …
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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-as-you-go, state-run defined-benefit pensions to individual, private-sector, funded defined-contribution accounts. It looks at three …
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, Spain, the UK and the US - under population aging. Two main aspects of the aging process are relevant to the analysis. First … towards future pensions with more private savings. Second, an aging electorate leads to larger systems, since it increases the … aspect dominates in all countries, albeit with some differences. Spain, the fastest aging country, faces the largest increase …
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the labour force in three countries: Italy, Spain and the USA. Our works stresses the importance of dynamic incentives …
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Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the … are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income taxation over …
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skilled labour ; effective tax burden ; pensions …
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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until the present day in Sweden and the United...
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