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Pensioners in the German Social Security System : Payments of Contribution and Benefits

Gasche, Martin - 2010

Pensioners receive pension payments as well as health insurance and nursing insurance benefits. But pensioners are also contributors to the health and nursing insurance. So the pensioners fund part of the expenditures they cause by themselves. This study takes a closer look at the different...

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Comparing public attitudes towards providing for the livelihood of the elderly in two aging societies: Germany and Japan

Hayo, Bernd; Ono, Hiroyuki - 2007

Germany and Japan. Applying an ordered logit model to individual data from representative public opinion surveys, it is … inclination towards a government-based pension system in the case of Japan but positively in Germany. Other significant influences … are the pensioner status of the respondents in Japan and their political position in the case of German data. …

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Top-heavy load: Trouble ahead for social security systems, Introduction by Peter A. Diamond

Diamond, Peter - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 3, pp. 28-36

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"Should I pay for you or for myself"? : the optimal level and composition of retirement benefit systems

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001

Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...

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Inherited wealth and demographic aging

Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both...

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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully-funded occupational pension systems, mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go, and old-fashioned hoarding in cash. Here, we call the specific mixture...

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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, a behavioral approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2020

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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, an equilibrium approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2018

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully funded occupational pension systems, and mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go. The specific mixture of the three systems we will call the pension composition....

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Aging, inadequacy, and fiscal constraint : the case of Thailand

Phitawat Poonpolkul; Ponpoje Porapakkarm; Nasi Wada - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 35-67

We use an overlapping generations model to study the challenge in developing countries with a large informal sector and aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system into the calibrated model. Unlike developed...

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Top-heavy load: Trouble ahead for social security systems, Introduction by Peter A. Diamond

Diamond, Peter - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 3, pp. 28-36

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998631