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The Eff ect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …
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Life Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2011
This paper extends the job creation-job destruction approach to the labor market to take into account a deterministic finite horizon. As hirings and separations depend on the time over which to recoup investment costs, the life-cycle setting implies age-differentiated labor market flows. Whereas...
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Ménard, … - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2011
, there is a sufficiently short distance to retirement for which flat unemployment benefits can be the optimal contract. It is … show that the unemployment benefit agency could take advantage of the retirement period to tax pensions in order to …This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years …
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Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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