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Die Überlegungen in dieser Arbeit beziehen sich auf eine Neugestaltung der Regelaltersgrenze der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung und der Altersgrenzen, zu denen bei gleichzeitigem Bezug einer Altersrente und eines Arbeitseinkommens ein gleitender Ausstieg aus dem Erwerbsleben vollzogen werden...
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Auf der Basis von modellhaften Erwerbsverläufen werden die Höhen der Renten bzw. Pensionen für das Jahr 2012 berechnet. Es zeigt sich, dass mit dem Rentenniveau für den Standardrentner die tatsächliche Absicherung um 25 bis 35 % zu hoch ausgewiesen wird. Das Standardrentenniveau, das für...
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Mit der Rentenreform von 1957 wurde die Dynamisierung der Renten eingeführt. Renten sollten sich im Gleichschritt mit den Löhnen entwickeln. Rentner sollten so an der Wirtschaftsentwicklung teilhaben. Mit den Rentenreformgesetzen 2001 bis 2004 wurde dieser Anspruch hinsichtlich der...
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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
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The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...
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The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
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The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...
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