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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Culture and Human Capital Investments: Evidence of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
indigenous families follows rules closely related to patriarchal family structures (in which women have limited decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703731
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Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...
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Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably introduces a wedge between the wage rate and the marginal take-home pay. A Bismarckian one can do so only if it is not actuarially fair, or in the presence of credit rationing. Interestingly, if the two possible sources of distortion are present at the...
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
Köthenbürger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu; Profeta, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiencyredistribution" trade-off to be resolved by political process. The inefficiency of social security...
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …
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15 Years of Pension Reform in Germany: Old Successes and New Threats
Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632741
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Demographic Aging in Germany Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper …
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