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Jousten, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on...

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Return-of-Premium Endorsements for Living-Benefits Insurance Policies: Rational or Irrational?

Strauss, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Insurance companies selling Critical Illness, Disability, and Long-Term Care insurance policies typically offer consumers the option to purchase an endorsement that returns the nominal value of all premiums paid (over the life of the policy) if the policy is not used during the policy term. The...

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Would Saving U.S. Social Security Raise National Saving?

Walliser, Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999

Analysts agree that raising national saving is one of the key objectives of social security reform in the United States. Hence, to judge the merits of proposals requires a comparison of saving responses. The paper outlines the difficulties involved in making those comparisons, which arise from...

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Tightening the purse strings: the effect of stricter DI eligibility criteria on labor supply

Staubli, Stefan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

This paper explores the labor supply effects of a large-scale policy change in the Austrian disability insurance program, which tightened eligibility criteria for men above a certain age. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results of...

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Tightening the Purse Strings: The Effect of Stricter DI Eligibility Criteria on Labor Supply

Staubli, Stefan - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

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Experience Rating and the Inflow into Disability Insurance

Koning, Pierre - In: De Economist 157 (2009) 3, pp. 315-335

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new...

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Targeted measures for persons with disabilities to cope with the cost-of-living crisis : study requested by the PETI committee

Birtha, Magdi; Zólyomi, Eszter; Wohlgemuth, Felix; … - Europäisches Parlament / Generaldirektion Interne … - 2023

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Jong, Philip de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large … to screen applications more intense. The empirical results show that intense screening reduces long-term sickness … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

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The Political Economy of the Disability Insurance. Theory and Evidence of Gubernatorial Learning from Social Security Administration Monitoring

Iyengar, Radha; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2008

The dramatic rise in the disability insurance (DI) roles in the last 20 years has been the subject of much controversy in both popular and academic circles. While, the relationship between DI and labor force participation has been the subject of a growing literature, the mechanism of this...

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