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Beine, Michel; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Vermeulen, Robert - CESifo - 2010

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially through formal channels that turn to be either less...

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Horizontal Merger under Strategic Tax Policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F.S. - CESifo - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the situation with no tax policy. Thus, we point towards a new factor, viz., strategic tax policy, for increasing the incentive for a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the...

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems

Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - CESifo - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...

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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls

Verbon, Harrie A. A - CESifo - 2007

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving to another club have become suspect as they are considered as an obstacle to the free movement of workers. However, in an unrestricted market free migration from football...

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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - CESifo - 2013

to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …

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Human Capital Accumulation and the Macroeconomy in an Ageing Society

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - CESifo - 2012

for consumption and the hours of time supplied to the labour market, they also choose their schooling level and retirement …

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Annuity Market Imperfection, Retirement and Economic Growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O. - CESifo - 2009

We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents’ labour supply and retirement decisions and …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009

address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines …

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

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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 - CESifo - 2013

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

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