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standard of living after retirement and thus to alleviate poverty in old age. In many developing and developed countries, the … minimum pension program is a key welfare program and a major influence on the retirement decisions of low-income workers and …-income workers to retire as soon as they become eligible for the program, which is often earlier than the normal retirement age. …
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scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …
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There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … retirement eligible have a 13 percent higher probability of being employed than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension …
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Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …
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We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not subject to laws governing division of marital property at divorce, because it is not acquired...
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choice to a work-retirement decision model and show that the optimal provision of choice is positively related to the degree …
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