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This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security pensions. The first part of the chapter discusses pure pay-as-you-go plans. It considers the effects of introducing such a plan on the present value of consumption, the optimal level of benefits in such plans,...
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wealth. This pattern is consistent across multiple retirement age thresholds and cohorts, including both individuals who have …
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This inquiry examines the role of federal policy in gender inequality using the principles of institutional adjustment (Foster 1981; Bush 1987) in the context of the Veblenian dichotomy of habit formation. Specifically, the authors assert that Social Security, though exclusive at its inception in...
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …
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1. Introduction -- 2. The evil of a premature death -- 3. An insurance against a short life -- 4. Reversing retirement … pension systems, by offering a period of retirement to all young adults before they start their career. Such a ‘reversed …
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