UNFUNDED PENSIONS AND ENDOGENOUS LABOR SUPPLY

Funding unfunded pensions

For many larger multinational companies, unfunded pensions represent an unmanaged risk and a growing liability. With the removal of the ‘corridor’ in the new IFRS IAS19R accounting regulations, unfunded pensions have become an increased source of volatility on the corporate balance sheet. Despite this, until today, funding unfunded pensions locally has either been too expensive or not possible....

Public pensions and labor supply over the life cycle

Endogenous Labor Supply and International Trade

It is assumed in new trade theory and new economic geography that the supply of labor is fixed, which is not true in real labor markets. We develop a model of new trade theory by incorporating an elastic labor supply and analyze the impacts of technological progress on the equilibrium outcomes of working hours and economic welfare. We first show that the labor supply curve is backward bending. ...

Endogenous Labor Supply and International Trade

It is assumed in new trade theory and new economic geography that the supply of labor is fixed, which is not true in real labor markets. We develop a model of new trade theory by incorporating an elastic labor supply and analyze the impacts of technological progress on the equilibrium outcomes of working hours and economic welfare. We first show that the labor supply curve is backward bending. ...

Reference-Dependent Consumption with Endogenous Labor Supply

This paper investigates time-consistent plans by incorporating the reference-dependent consumption model with endogenous labor supply. To what extent these plans can help the consumer overcome the double self-control problems of over-consumption and late-retirement is discussed. The consumption level and labor supply of the preferred personal equilibrium solution are compared with those of ex-a...