Pensions for Singles and Couples
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Pensions for Singles and Couples
Retirement policies often seek to set minimum pensions at levels that enable single and married pensioners to have the same standard of living. The existing literature on consumer equivalence scales provides little assistance in reaching this policy objective, as the estimated scales are both imprecise and reliant upon strong and opaque assumptions. This paper proposes an alternative modelling ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Income and Wealth
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0034-6586
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12106