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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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The savings behavior of immigrants in Germany
Sinning, Mathias (contributor) - 2007
hauptsächlich auf Einwanderer in Deutschland, enthält aber auch internationale Vergleiche. Das deutsche Sozio-ökonomische Panel … bildet die wichtigste Datenquelle für die Analyse von in Deutschland lebenden Einwanderern. Die empirischen Ergebnisse weisen … Deutschland lassen sich auf eine Einwanderungspolitik zurückführen, die sich hauptsächlich an kurzfristigen ökonomischen …
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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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Retirement saving and attitude towards financial intermediaries : evidence for Germany
Johansen, Kathrin - 2008
People often disregard the need for individual savings for old-age although a decreasing rate of birth and an increasing life expectancy make it necessary to save additional money for retirement by using private or occupational pensions. Due to a lack of financial literacy and a variety of...
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Essays on individual and household decision-making : experimental and survey evidence
Schunk, Daniel (contributor) - 2006
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Precautionary saving and income uncertainty in Germany : a new evidence from microdata
Bartzsch, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2006
The saving ratio of households in Germany has increased in the past few years when the income trend was weak. This could be due to precautionary saving. In this paper, the importance of precautionary saving against income uncertainty is analyzed empirically using micro data from the German...
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Source country characteristics and immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions
Kırdar, Murat G. - 2010
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...
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Betting on a long life : the role of subjective life expectancy in the demand for private pension insurance of german households
Schulte, Katharina; Dörr, Ulrike - 2010
With a view to investigating the presence of adverse selection, we analyze determinants of private pension insurance uptake of German households in a probit model. Using survey data on savings and old-age provision, we find that subjective life expectancy is positively related with the...
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Angebotsinduzierung und Mitnahmeeffekt im Rahmen der Riester-Rente : eine empirische Analyse
Pfarr, Christian; Schneider, Udo - 2010
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