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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Danzer, Alexander M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …

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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

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Kemptner, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … the early retirement option, the simulations indicate that a means test mitigates the moral hazard problem substantially. …

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...

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Do Absolute Majorities Spend Less?: Evidence from Germany

Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

The number of parties in government is usually considered to increase spending. We show that this is not necessarily the case. Using a new method to detect close election outcomes in multi-party systems, we isolate truly exogenous variation in the type of government. With data from...

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Marginal Taxes: A Good or a Bad for Wages?: The Incidence of the Structure of Income and Labor Taxes on Wages

Rattenhuber, Pia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Empirical evidence so far found ambiguous results for the direction of effect of marginal income tax rates on employee remuneration. Based on the GSOEP data from 2002 through 2008 this study analyzes the impact of the marginal tax load on the employee side on the wage rate also allowing average...

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Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...

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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...

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The Timing of Employment Breaks: How Does It Affect Pension Benefits? ; Empirical Evidence from Germany

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper provides empirical evidence how the timing of employment breaks affects pension benefits in Germany. Analysing the biographical data set from the German Pension Insurance (SUF VVL 2004) the employment histories of individuals aged 21 to 60 can be mirrored in detail. We relate...

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