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What Active Labour Market Programmes Work for Immigrants in Europe?
Walter, Thomas; Butschek, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects … of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of these findings based on the sign and significance of the estimates …. This allows us to present quantitative evidence for the relative effectiveness for immigrants of different types of ALMPs …
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Do High-Skilled Immigrants find Jobs Faster than Low-Skilled Immigrants?
Wapler, Rüdiger; Hochfellner, Daniela - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164050
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Optimal Pension Design in General Equlibrium
Fehr, Hans; Uhde, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
The present paper aims to quantify efficiency properties of real world social security systems of various institutional designs in order to identify an optimal pension design. Starting from a benchmark economy without social security, we introduce alternative pension systems and compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955213
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The Political Sustainability of Germany's Environmental Tax Rate
Roeder, Kerstin; Habla, Wolfgang - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
We analyze the German ecotax package in a model of overlapping generations and majority voting. The package consists of the ecotax rate and the budgetary rule which assigns a fraction of the tax revenue to the reduction of pension contributions while holding pension benefits constant. The old...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955228
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Should pensions be progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!
Kallweit, Manuel; Fehr, Hans; Kindermann, Fabian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population ageing might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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The Intergenerational Distribution of Demographic Fluctuations in Unfunded and Funded Pension Systems
Knell, Markus - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
In this paper I use a multi-period OLG model to study how a demographic shock is distributed among different generations. In particular, I investigate whether a funded pension system allows for a smoother adjustment than an unfunded system. The results suggest that the answer to this question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958002
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Role of Actuarial Reduction Rates in Individual Retirement Planning in Germany
Kluth, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This paper provides a two-part empirical analysis on how actuarial reduction rates for early retirement affect current pension payments in Germany and to what extent the existence and the magnitude of these reduction rates influence people s retirement planning. First, by evaluating a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163890
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Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension Reform
Lüthen, Holger - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
To counteract aging populations, statutory pay-as-you-go pension systems are subject to fundamental reforms in many Western societies. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of...
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Retirement Behaviour in Austria: Incentive Effects on Old-Age Labor Supply
Hanappi, Tibor Paul - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This research analyses retirement behaviour in Austria based on a combined administrative dataset. Data from the Austrian social security database is merged with a dataset that contains very detailed information on all pension-relevant information on the individual level, e.g. insurance records...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164054
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The introduction of disincentives for early retirement and its effect on labor market participation
Kemptner, Daniel; Timm, Boenke; Holger, Luethen - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
We evaluate the actual effectiveness of disincentives that have been introduced for early retirement in Germany. Therefore, we set up a detailed model of the German social security and tax system with special attention to the PAYG-pension system. Building on the fact that the institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164182