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The employment of foreigners in Western European industrial countries
Werner, Heinz - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 20 (1985) 1, pp. 10-15
Not least due to the change in overall economic conditions, the employment of foreign workers in Western Europe has in recent years become increasingly controversial. The following two articles deal with different aspects of labour migration. Heinz Werner presents a survey of policies towards...
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Determinants of occupational pension provision in Germany
Johansen, Kathrin - 2007
Demographic change causes an undersupply of financial old age benefits within the statutory pay-as-you-go pension system in Germany. Therefore, the provision of occupational as well as private pensions has to be enhanced. However, there seems to be an undersupply of occupational pension...
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Angebotsinduzierung und Mitnahmeeffekt im Rahmen der Riester-Rente : eine empirische Analyse
Pfarr, Christian; Schneider, Udo - 2010
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Assessing the factors of resilience of private consumption in the euro area
Deroose, Servaas - 2006 - Dec. 2005
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Who is saving privately for retirement and how much? : new evidence for Germany
Metzger, Christoph - 2015
Due to demographic change the replacement rates of the German statutory pension scheme will decrease over the next decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of living during retirement. This article examines the...
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked contrast to the situation in Anglo-Saxon countries. It has advantages if labour markets are strong, e.g., following a quick recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as...
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Ersparnis und Versorgungsaufwendungen nach Haushaltsgruppen
Bedau, Klaus-Dietrich - 1999
Seit geraumer Zeit geht die gesamtwirtschaftliche Sparquote in Deutschland zurück. Ursächlich dafür sind vor allem die … Sparquote zu. Außerdem beeinflußt die Art der sozialen Sicherung die Höhe der Sparquote. Selbständigen-Haushalte sparen einen … Abschluß von Lebensversicherungen treffen. (Nichtbeamtete) Arbeitnehmer dagegen sparen einen Teil ihres Einkommens nicht …
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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015
We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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Maintaining one's living standard at old age : what does that mean? ; evidence using panel data from Germany
Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013
How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...
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