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The CARES Act provides cash flow relief for “qualified individuals” with savings and retirement benefits by enhancing …
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access to up to $A20,000 of their ‘preserved’ retirement savings, making otherwise illiquid balances temporarily liquid …, findings raise the question of whether the framing of mandatory retirement savings as a mental account solely to finance …
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panel of U.S. tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the …, contributions to retirement savings vehicles did not meaningfully decline. Second, driven by the suspension of required minimum …
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panel of US tax data, including tens of millions of person-year observations, and measure retirement savings contributions … and withdrawals. We use these data to document several important changes in retirement savings patterns during the … pandemic relative to prior years, and we compare these results to changes in savings patterns during the Great Recession. We …
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We provide, calibrate and test a realistic model of the spread of SARS-Cov-2 in an economy with different risks related to age and sectors. The model considers hospital congestion and response of individuals adjusting their behavior to the virus' spread. We measure precisely the size of these...
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The implementation of a lockdown to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a strong economic and political debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the...
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In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...
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We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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Many studies show that workers make poor decisions about pension savings. Policy responses to these failures include … social security retirement arrangements, tax benefits for pension savings and, in some countries, also mandatory private … savings towards retirement. This study examines the response of Israeli employees to the introduction of mandatory pension …
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