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This paper undertakes a review of the existing academic work on tax incentives and personal saving. Its central conclusions are as follows. First, the traditional life cycle hypothesis has had an excessive influence on the design and conceptualization of empirical investigations concerning...
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). At a relatively low real return on the pension capital, the fiscal subsidy in terms of net present value comes to 7 …
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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the ratio of behavioral cost to mechanical cost of this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than other … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …
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subsidy program for low-pay workers. The subsidies have a kinked relationship with the recipients' past contributions …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the ratio of behavioral to mechanical costs for this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than that …
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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the ratio of behavioral cost to mechanical cost of this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than other … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade. …
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This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...
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consumers from the shocks making a funded pension scheme equivalent to a research and production subsidy for the economy …
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Can the freedom to choose how retirement funds are invested leave workers worse off? Via simulation, we document that choice in stock v. bond allocation and type of equity investments in private accounts leads to lower utility and greater risk of income shortfalls relative to private accounts...
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When and how to subsidize tax-favored pension accounts? To defend myopic workers against themselves, the government introduces a mandatory system but to help savers, it adds taxfavored retirement accounts. If the mandatory system is progressive, then a proportional voluntary system can...
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We compare the cost effectiveness of two pronatalist policies: (a) child allowances; and (b) daycare subsidies. We pay special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on...
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