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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763616
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371916
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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data
Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703499
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Demografischer Wandel: Künftige Handlungsoptionen für die deutsche Rentenpolitik
Müller, Christoph; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Mit dem Einstieg in die staatlich geförderte private Altersvorsorge, der Einführung des Nachhaltigkeitsfaktors und der … Rente mit 67 wurden in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren umfangreiche Rentenreformen verabschiedet. Diese jüngsten Maßnahmen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216740
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Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
Holzmann, Robert; Jousten, Alain - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined contribution (NDC) scheme. As the new contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694992
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632739
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695866
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Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
Desmet, Raphael; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. Focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703764
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Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game
de Grip, Andries; Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070418
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Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143941