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Infrastructure Needs and Pension Investments: Creating the Perfect Match

24 januar 2013
  • The life insurance and pensions sector manages large funds with a truly long time horizon. These investors therefore naturally seek long-dated assets to match their liabilities. Real assets or real cash flows are preferred in order to hedge against inflation, which is particularly relevant for pension funds in order to assure a decent purchasing power for their clients’ retirement income.

Income from work after retirement in the EU

04 januar 2013
  • EU social and employment policies increasingly emphasise extending working life and increasing effective retirement age. Over the past few years, it has become more common for Europeans to work beyond the age at which they are entitled to a statutory or occupational pension.

Intra and Intergenerational Transfers The Case of the Netherlands for the First Pillar of Pensions

24 oktober 2012
  • Since the creation of the Old Age Pension scheme (Algemene Ouderdomswet, henceforth; AOW) in 1957 some important changes in its regulation have taken place. The purpose of this study is to analyse the redistribution of income for different individuals in the AOW taking into account these changes in regulation and different groups of individuals according to their gender, civil status and income.

Immigrant networks and the take-up of disability programs: evidence from U.S. census data

23 oktober 2012
  • This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States.

Ingemar Eriksson

fredag, 31 august 2012

Infrastructure Needs and Pension Investments: Creating the Perfect Match

25 juni 2012
  • The life insurance and pensions sector manages large funds with a truly long time horizon. These investors therefore naturally seek long-dated assets to match their liabilities. Real assets or real cash flows are preferred in order to hedge against inflation, which is particularly relevant for pension funds in order to assure a decent purchasing power for their clients’ retirement income.

Institutional survival and return: examples from the new pension orthodoxy

12 juni 2012
  • In the struggle of historical institutionalism to explain the origin and change of institutions, the state-of-the-art is currently represented by Streeck and Thelen’s (2005) study Beyond continuity. The book departs from the previous, bifurcated literature, which divides institutional evolution into long periods of stasis, characterised by incremental change and short, sudden bursts of institutional innovation. The authors, in fact, focus on change as a combination of process and result. In particular, they show how a rigid dichotomy between typically path dependent incremental adaptation (or simply continuity) and radical transformation does not capture important transformative processes common to advanced political economies. Most innovatively, their contribution focuses on examples of radical but at the same time gradual transformation.

Indkomster 2009 - Pension

12 mars 2012
  • Indkomsten er en meget vigtig indikator for vores levevilkår. Penge giver i sig selv tryghed mod det uforudsete, og penge kan også konverteres til god bolig, sund mad, spændende fritidsfornøjelser og meget andet, som forbedrer vores levevilkår. For almindelige familier er privatforbruget og de indkomster, der giver grundlaget for det, i en vis forstand slutresultatet af de økonomiske aktiviteter i samfundet.

Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

12 september 2011
  • In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated
    employment tax and collective fees. For parts of the workforce, the collective fees are
    progressive with respect to the employee’s age and wage. The objective of this paper is to
    examine how non-wage costs affect voluntary early retirement. To this end we use a large
    longitudinal employer–employee matched data set with administrative records of the private
    sector in Sweden. We exploit the variation in collective fee costs across companies to identify
    employer incentives to encourage early retirement. The results from the instrumental variable
    estimator suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in non-wage costs in relation to wage
    costs increases retirement by 6 percent. Further, given the wage sum and workforce structure,
    large firms spend more on non-wage compensation than small firms. The share of non-wage
    costs in relation to the wage sum is also positively linked to net employment growth.

Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

29 august 2011
  • The objective of this paper is to examine how employers’ non-wage costs for their workforce affect voluntary early retirement, using the case of the Swedish private sector. The results show that a 1 percentage point increase in non-wage costs in relation to wage costs increases retirement by 6 percent. Further, given the wage sum and workforce structure, large firms spend more on non-wage compensation than small firms.

Is Pension Inequality Growing?

10 juni 2011
  • Employer-sponsored pensions are an important source of retirement income and often make the difference between having a comfortable retirement and just scraping by.

Inequalities and poverty in retirement

10 mai 2011
  • A report said that in 2007-08 an estimated 2 million pensioners were living in poverty (UK)(according to the most commonly used official measure), down from 2.9 million in 1998-99.