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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …
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This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the optimal degree of reliance on fun ded pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of...
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pension system, where savings are matched by government grants. Accounting for the resulting tax expenditure, our models … shortsighted workers' saving and reduces perverse income redistribution. …
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The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
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supplementary savings needed to cover it. The issue of pension system income adequacy is first discussed, and the forecasted and … defined and the size of the gap is analyzed. The amount of savings needed to cover the pension gap is then computed. How … changes in the values of particular parameters influence the amount of monthly savings needed to cover the individual pension …
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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory … individual savings, that the fully funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of the median worker and that … decisions is a Pareto-equilibrium. Nowadays most of capital supply stems from individual and institutionalised pension savings …
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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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