Publications

Ravit Rubinstein-Levi and Haim Kedar-Levy

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March 2019

Financial illiteracy, irrational thinking prevents people from saving for retirement​

Most people in Western countries fail to plan sufficiently for retirement. As a result, most OECD countries will be faced in coming years with large social security expenditures to support aging populations at a time of expanding life-expectancy.

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Additional publications

Avia Spivak, Aviad Tur-Sinai
How Generous Are Societies toward Their Elderly?
A European Comparative Study of Replacement Rates, Well-Being and Economic Adequacy
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Avia Spivak, David Leiser
Pension reform - Lessons from abroad
Benne van Popta and Onno Steenbeek share key findings from a study they did on Pension Reform in 9 countries, including Israel
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Reuben Gronua, Avia Spivak
Reforms in the Israeli pension system
The past two decades have been marked by changes in the structure of pension saving and the entities involved in pension savings.
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Zvika Afik, Tomer Shushi ,Rami Yosef
Mass-customization of insurance a valuation perspective
This paper presents a large set of flexible products that can be easily tailored to meet individual customer demand.
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Daphna Kahana
Young people in debt (Hebrew)
A lit. review of household over-indebtness with emphasis on young debtors, in Israel and abroad
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David Leiser, Eyal Carmel, Hernan Rosenblum, Eyal Menaged
Communication with the public on pension issues (Hebrew)
This report establishes the infrastructure for effective intervention in the conduct of the public in matters of pensions.
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Department of Economics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev​​
P.O.B 653 Beer-Sheva, 8410501 Israel