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from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low due to low spending on the old (pensions, health care) and the young …
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This paper develops a three-period overlapping-generations model where middle-aged agents care about not only their own lifetime utility but also their old parents’ and children’s well-being. The double altruistic agents choose amounts of intergenerational transfers to their old parents and...
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Old-age poverty is to become one of the most pressing issues in the coming decades given the demographic trends forecasted. Particularly in developing countries this could be an obstacle to inclusive and sustainable growth as well as the fight against all forms of poverty (SDG 1), through shocks...
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This paper presents long term projections of the German pension system that are based on a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations (OLG). This framework takes into account the two way feedback of both micro and macroeconomic relationships, meaning that households, for example,...
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, state-contingent government bonds are a better risk sharing tools than pensions, which become too costly, or taxation, which … improvements. To the extent that public pensions remain important, plans with wage-indexed defined benefits seem preferable to …
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, state-contingent government bonds are a better risk sharing tools than pensions, which become too costly, or taxation, which … improvements. To the extent that public pensions remain important, plans with wage-indexed defined benefits seem preferable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320907
Pensions and population aging intersect in two ways. First, demographic change threatens the sustainability of … traditional pay-as-you-go social security pensions, leaving workplace-linked pensions with a greater role in retirement provision … reviews some of the implications of population aging for workplace pensions in this new environment, outlines market …
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The policy brief presents a review of potential effects of parametric pension reform in Belarus starting in 2017 for the population aged 50 and more in terms of unemployment, alcohol consumption, and poverty. It concludes that, despite the fact that raising the retirement age is overdue in...
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pressures to expand the coverage of public pensions and raise pension benefits will likely increase. The first objective of this … paper is to identify the potential fiscal burden of public pensions in 23 emerging Asian economies, based on econometric …
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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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