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To Save or Save Not: Intergenerational Neutrality and the Expansion of New Zealand Superannuation
Coleman, Andrew - 2014
Increases in longevity mean the size of New Zealand's public retirement income programme, New Zealand Superannuation, will automatically expand unless the age of eligibility is increased. This paper analyses the consequences of expanding New Zealand Superannuation on a save-as-you-go basis...
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The role of supplementary retirement savings in reducing the pension gap in Poland
Jedynak, Tomasz - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 1, pp. 95-113
The main aim of the study is to identify the size of the pension gap in Poland and to estimate the level of supplementary savings needed to cover it. The issue of pension system income adequacy is first discussed, and the forecasted and targeted levels of replacement rates in Poland are...
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Experiences with occupational pensions in Denmark
Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Pedersen, Torben Möger; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 1, pp. 11-30
This paper focuses on the development of the funded, occupational pension (OP) system in Denmark. Launched in 1987, as a grand agreement between social partners backed by the government, and as part of the collective wage bargaining process, the Danish OP system differs from the set-up in most...
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Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk
Uhlig, Harald; Bovenberg, A. Lans - 2008
This paper explores the optimal risk sharing arrangement between generations in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We allow for nonseparable preferences, paying particular attention to the risk aversion of the old as well as overall 'life-cycle' risk aversion. We provide a...
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Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2005
The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security has proposed a number of changes in Social Security, each of them introducing personal accounts funded from a portion of payroll tax receipts, and in one case, out of additional contributions. These changes are presented in the form of...
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The growth, equity, and risk implications of different retirement income policies
Coleman, Andrew - In: New Zealand economic papers 48 (2014) 2, pp. 226-239
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The Commitment Value of Prefunded Pensions
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces … temptation to over-redistribute later and to misuse revealed private information. Prefunding may be preferable even if the …
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The commitment value of prefunded pensions
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces … temptation to over-redistribute later and to misuse revealed private information. Prefunding may be preferable even if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405644
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The effect of changes in the replacement rate on partial retirement in Sweden
Glans, Erik (contributor) - 2008
Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social security systems. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the effect of changed replacement rates on part-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774828
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Retirement patterns during the Swedish pension fund
Glans, Erik (contributor) - 2008
The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits than the former system. I study whether the reform has...
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