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The Effect of Pension Generosity on Early Retirement: A Microdata Analysis for Europe from 1967 to 2004.
Fischer, Justina AV; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement probabilities from 16% to 63%.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031396
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Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health among Elderly Europeans: The Impact of Mental and Physical Health Status
Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas; Schneider, Udo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which provides a rich dataset on the elderly European population. To obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919782
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Validating SHARE in France with other French surveys : health and income data
Garrouste, Christelle; Godefroy, Pascal; Laferrère, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across … proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as SHARE is unique in Europe in terms of scope and target sample, its … key SHARE variables to their counterparts in other French surveys. We concentrate on health and income data that we relate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836402
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Wealth inequality in Europe and the delusive egalitarianism of Scandinavian countries
Skopek, Nora; Buchholz, Sandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare states. Using SHARE data, our analyses suggest (1) that there is strong variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370841
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Are financial analysts of IPO firms under pressure: the European evidence
Boissin, Romain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Long run returns of IPO firms’ recommendations in Europe reveal possible conflicts of interest and pressures faced by financial analysts over the 1991-2005 period. Nevertheless, recent European legislations about investment research have led to better long run performance of IPO firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422017
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Measuring the Systematic Risk of IPO’s Using Empirical Bayes Estimates in the Thinly Traded Istanbul Stock Exchange
Muradoglu, Gulnur; Zaman, Asad; Orhan, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The systematic risk of IPO’s in the thinly traded Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) are estimated using Empirical Bayes Estimators (EBE). The sectors that the firms belong to, provide the priors. Comparisons are made with OLS estimators across different estimation and forecasting periods. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789479
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Internet & Capital raising: the perfect match?
Lemmens, Geert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The financial world has discovered the advantages of the Internet immediately. Financial services lend themselves perfectly to electronic media since they do not involve the movement of physical things to achieve clearance and settlement . The need for fast and up to date information has pushed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789871
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What is the Social Economy?
Lans, Cheryl - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This concept paper reviews the various definitions of the social economy in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211864
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A Search for a Measure of the Quality of Life on Prince Edward Island: An Inter-Provincial ‘Cost of Living’ Inquiry
Baldacchino, Godfrey; Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per … ‘household financial health’, and use this to compare the state of affairs in the various provinces of Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260297
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Canadian Oil Sands Investments: FOCUS on a Controversial Energy Source
Palombizio, Ennio A.; Borchert, Jan Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
satisfy demand. A large portion of the oil sands are located in Canada and this gives Canada an opportunity to improve its … economy. Since the discovery, Canada has seen a vast influx in investment for the purpose of extracting these oil deposits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402060