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Bridging the gap in pension participation : how much can universal tax-deferred pension coverage hope to achieve?
Karamcheva, Nadia; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - 2013
-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777009
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Voluntary job separations and traditional versus flexible workplace saving plans : evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997334
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Balancing inclusiveness, work incentives and sustainability in Denmark
Klein, Caroline; Hansen, Louise Aggerstrøm - 2016
The generous Danish welfare state relies on a high degree of labour force participation both for financing and in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577983
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What happens when employers are obliged to nudge? : automatic enrolment and pension saving in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2016
automatic enrolment, participation in workplace pensions among eligible private sector workers is estimated to have increased by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562544
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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses
Teulings, Coen N.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2003
The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334341
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Public and private pension systems and macroeconomic volatility in OECD countries
Holzner, Mario; Jestl, Stefan; Pichler, David - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153877
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The effect of automatic enrolment on employees working for small employers
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2019
workplace pension participation among those working for small employers by around 45 percentage points to reach 70% of targeted … leaves pension participation substantially below the very high levels (around 90%) seen under automatic enrolment among the … largest employers in the United Kingdom and the United States. We find evidence that this lower participation rate is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991751
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COVID-19 private pension withdrawals and unemployment tenures
Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert; Watson, Timothy - 2022
This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment payments in the COVID-19 context. We use a novel set of linked whole-of-population administrative records to examine more than half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273943
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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data
Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420652
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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data
Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449754