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Urban Ageing Welfare Leaking and Remedy Strategies in Macau
The world is experiencing population ageing, which will extend to the future across the world. The ageing population is sure to impact a country’s welfare policy and economy.
Xin Wang, Kang-Lin Peng, Ting Meng
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Pensioners’ Poverty Requires Fundamental Reform
The German government seeks to improve the situation of longterm pension contributors with the basic pension (“Grundrente”). However, the basic pension only combats the symptoms rather than addressing the causes of low pensions and old age poverty: the ...
Ernst Niemeier
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Linking pensions to longevity developments at retirement age has been one of the most common policy responses of pension schemes to aging populations. The introduction of automatic stabilizers is primarily motivated by cost containment objectives, but ...
Jorge M. Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso
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Background: One of the most pressing phases for all economic agents is post-retirement standard of living. Irrespective of the higher returns on pension contribution and varied pension reforms, there are possible factors that can render these pension ...
Grace Ofori-Abebrese +2 more
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The determinants of savings rates in OECD countries: The role of private pensions
The design of pension schemes is crucial in determining savings behavior. The impact of pension schemes on saving rates across countries remains to be an intriguing empirical question considering the complicated nature of the relationship between saving ...
Pınar Fulya Gebeşoğlu +2 more
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Individuals benefit from smoothing consumption over time, a fact well illustrated in the domain of pension spending. But many potential benefits from consumption smoothing are lost in practice due to an overconsumption in the present and near-future compared to the far-future, which is known as “present bias”. Present bias’s impact on pensioner welfare
Newall, Philip, Peacey, Michael W
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Taxation and Corporate Pension Policy [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on the impact of taxes on optimal corporate pension policy. The analysis is based upon an integration of corporate and individual shareholder considerations. The major conclusions are that a company should fully fund its pension plan and should invest the pension fund totally in bonds.
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The Sustainability of PAYG Pension Schemes: A Comparative Analysis (1993–2023) [PDF]
The most common policy response to pension account deficit appears to be increasing age of retirement. Many countries with PAYG pension schemes have been experiencing this bitter reality. This paper brings to evidence some parameters of PAYG pension
Jiri ROTSCHEDL +3 more
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Complexity in Risks Facing Pension Plans: Nonmarket Financial Risk in the United States and Poland [PDF]
This paper discusses agency, regulatory capture, counterparty and political risks as aspects of the nonmarket financial risks that pension plans and their participants bear, using as examples the United States and Poland.
Adam Samborski, John A. Turner
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Designing a pension system is both a complex endeavor and a long lasting legacy. Complexity stems from the many trade-offs that conceiving a pension system entail and from how these initial decisions affect the social and economic behavioral responses of
Vincenzo Galasso
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