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Demographic change and the rate of return in pay-as-you-go pension systems
The ongoing demographic change in most developed countries consists of two coinciding independent developments that differ in structure and...
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Aging and Pension Systems
This chapter studies the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on aging and pension systems within the Emerging European Economies (EEE). In the first...
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Economic effects of pension reform: applying the overlap** generations model to long-term nursing care
This study examines how pension reform will affect households’ caregiving practices and welfare through changes in the price of care. The results...
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Optimal additional voluntary contribution in DC pension schemes to manage inadequacy risk
In defined contribution pension schemes the member bears the investment risk and her main concern is to obtain an inadequate fund at retirement. To...
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Inequality and Public Pension Entitlements
The literature on wealth inequality is expanding very fast. Wealth is usually more concentrated than income. However, traditional measures of wealth...
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Optimizing the Life-Cycle Path of Pension Premium Payments and the Pension Ambition in the Netherlands
We determine the optimal life-cycle path of pension premiums during the working ages and pension benefits during retirement, assuming that households...
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Late-in-life investments in human capital: evidence on the (unintended) effects of a pension reform
This paper studies whether forced increases in the residual working life, determined by a restrictive pension reform, induce additional training...
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Pension Participants’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Emotional Responses to the New Dutch Pension System
As of 2022, the Dutch pension system will be overhauled. The success of this as well as other pension reforms also depends on how participants react...
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Alternative Pension Systems: Generalities and Reform Issues in Transition Economies
Private provision for the needs of the elderly takes two forms: (1) intra-family solidarity, whereby children look after their parents and any other...
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Evolution of Pension System Financial Models for Sustainable Economic Growth
Sustainable accumulation of pension rights and increasing of income protection for individuals are central problems for any pension system. Public...
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Pension Markets in Africa
The existing pension systems in Africa tend to have very low coverage, and they are typically made up of civil servants or a few well-paid formal...
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Swiss pension funds: funding ratio, discount rate, and asset allocation
The funding ratio is a financial indicator to measure the viability of pension funds. The paper analyzes how Swiss occupational pension funds’...
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Improving economic security for older persons by public pension schemes: evidence from National Transfer Accounts for India
This paper develops a framework for analysis of distribution related policy issues (i.e. inequality, poverty and inequity) for ensuring economic...
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Trust and Distrust in Pension Providers in Times of Decline and Reform: Analysis of Survey Data 2004–2021
Trust in pension providers by participants is essential because pension providers try to fulfill their pension promises in a fundamentally uncertain...
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Intergenerational Transfers in the New Dutch Pension Contract
This paper measures intergenerational transfers through the solidarity reserve of the newly proposed Dutch occupational pension contract. Our first...
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Overview of Pension Systems
Understanding the configuration of social protection and pension systems can be achieved only from a sociohistorical perspective upon the framework...
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Retirement Expectations in the Aftermath of a Pension Reform
In this paper we investigate the effects of a pension reform on workers’ retirement expectations. To assess whether individuals revise their...
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Role of Migration in Pension Integration within the European Union
Although the European Union has made notable steps towards completion of the economic and monetary union, fiscal convergence, banking union and...
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Financial Sustainability of Pension Systems Empirical Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries
The sustainability of public pension systems has become an important aspect for governments and institutions worldwide. This book addresses the...
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National Pension System of China and Development of the Capital Market
As the two most commonly used typical pension systems, the pay-as-you-go system and the fund accumulation system have been adopted by various...