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Heterogeneity in pension policy
, 2022 This thesis contributes to the public economics and economics of ageing literature. It focuses on heterogeneity in pension policy. In the first chapter, the heterogeneity relates to the age of individuals at the time of the reform. It analyses the distributional consequences of gradual pension reforms required to balance the intertemporal budget ...
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Unemployment, Human Capital Depreciation and Pension Benefits: An Empirical Evaluation of German Data [PDF]
This paper investigates empirically how unemployment-induced employment-breaks at different career stages influence pension benefits. The analysis is based on German data.
Niklas Potrafke
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Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Retirement age expectations and preferences are shaped by individual, social, and government policy influences. Our paper reviews major policy changes in the Australian Retirement Income System over the past two decades and documents changes in Australian workers' expected and preferred retirement age. Research Findings/
Paul Gerrans +2 more
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Pension benefit default risk and welfare effects of funding regulation [PDF]
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of funding regulation for defined benefit pension plans subject to pension benefit default risk in an incomplete financial markets OLG-setting with aggregate uncertainty and idiosyncratic pension default risk.
Thomas Steinberger
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The integrated crop‐livestock system (ICLS) involves rural households simultaneously engaging in crop cultivation and livestock rearing, embodying the principles of a circular bioeconomy. In this system, crop cultivation produces straw as livestock feed, while livestock rearing generates manure that enriches the soil for crop production.
Hongyun Zheng +4 more
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The German Savings Puzzle [PDF]
Germany has one of the most generous public pension and health insurance systems of the world, yet private savings are high until old age. Savings remain positive in old age, even for most low income households.
Börsch-Supan, Axel +4 more
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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie +3 more
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Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
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Do Redistributive Pension Systems Increase Inequalities and Welfare? [PDF]
Using a capital-skill complementarity technology, we analytically show that an increase in the direct redistributivity of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems has a positive impact on wages and on wage inequalities.
Christophe Hachon
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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