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, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient …In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … moderate economic conditions. However, the new private pension plans provide scope for further downsizing state pensions …
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Most young households simultaneously hold both unsecured debt on which they pay an average of 10 percent interest and social security wealth on which they earn less than 2 percent. We document this fact using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We then consider a life-cycle model with...
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nachfolgenden Generationen kaum akzeptieren: Zu Recht, denn die eigenen Renten wären dadurch im Umlageverfahren, in dem die Beiträge …
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der dem Umlageverfahren zugrunde liegende Generationenvertrag der Überwindung einer Ineffizienz bei der Finanzierung der … Bildung dienen kann. Daher ist das Umlageverfahren zumindest potenziell geeignet alle Gesellschaftsmitglieder, einschließlich … introduction of child pensions promises efficiency gains for the statutory pension systems. Additionally, it is shown how child …
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A pay-as-you-go (paygo) pension program may provide intergenerational pooling of risks to individuals' labor and capital income over the life cycle. By means of a model that provides illuminating closed form solutions, we demonstrate that the magnitude of the optimal paygo program and the nature...
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In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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Chile approved in early 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor for a unified program with a pioneering design, with phase-in ending in 2012. This paper describes the political economy of this reform and evaluates it with regards to efficiency and...
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retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight … tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims of low-income workers might not even exceed the minimum income … people who have never worked or paid any contributions. However, the government defended the current retirement benefit …
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We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits...
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