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...

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...

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...

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...

We conduct detailed analysis of the Polish Household Budget Survey data for the years 2006-2011 with the focus on its representativeness from the point of view of microsimulation analysis. We find important discrepancies between the data weighted with baseline grossing-up weights and official...

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...

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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,...

The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to...