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Dynamic labor supply and saving incentives in privatized pension systems: evidence from Chile

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  • Clement Joubert

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    government can increase total household savings by 14% by increasing the required contribution rate by 5 percentage points. However, it also lowers pension system coverage by 5 percentage points as people leave the covered sector for the uncovered sector.

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    Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2010 Meeting Papers with number 291.

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    1. Alberto Arenas de Mesa & Jere Behrman & David Bravo, 2001. "Characteristics of and determinants of the density of contributions in a Private Social Security System," Working Papers wp077, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
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