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Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
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and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …
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heterogeneity of rearing costs and of enjoying children is introduced. Two major results: (i) excluding negative savings, fertility … decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may … strengthen heterogeneity in fertility. …
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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205307
for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …-term positive trend in life expectancies. Despite the fact that SSA as a whole is suffering a delayed and slow fertility transition … compared to other world's regions, and despite evidence for halting or even reverting fertility decline in countries with …
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This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth. The model is calibrated to fit to Korean data. We find that gender equality policies that lower discrimination in the labor market or that increase the time spent by a father on...
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gender-equality economy. This is because fertility and population decrease as women participate more in the labor market. …
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This paper assesses how a permanent shift from financing a public pay-as-you-go pension by direct (labour income) taxation towards financing it by indirect(consumption) taxation affects the economy and welfare. To this end, we use anoverlapping-generations-augmented two-region general...
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This paper analyses the impact of public pension expenditures and pension funds' assets as well as their benefits on economic volatility. To do so, we use panel data for 35 OECD countries for the period 1980-2018 and apply a set of state-of-the-art econometric estimators. Our results show weak...
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