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Incentives to retire later - a solution to the social security crisis?
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001
As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...
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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107201
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
Dustmann, Christian - 2012
Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility : Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers
Dustmann, Christian - 2007
This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...
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Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers : The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
Caliendo, Marco - 2016
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983898
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Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment
Haan, Peter; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2021
In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). In this framework we distinguish between voluntary non-participation and involuntary unemployment...
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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … control for correlated individual-specific effects in both selection- and wage equations. We conclude that migrant women … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …
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