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on pensions results in higher savings. Our findings show that reducing the income tax rate on pensions has almost no … significant effect on savings behavior. However, if we vary the current tax rate at which savings are deducted, subjects adjust … savings period. Moreover, our results also demonstrate that governments could significantly raise the average after-tax …
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This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...
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Recently, mandatory pension contributions in the private sector in Iceland were increased substantially while remaining unchanged in the public sector. This constituted a large natural experiment. We study the effects of this experiment on households’ voluntary saving using administrative...
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among the third of the affiliates with the lowest savings. However, we found that the recent increase in non …
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