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Incentives to retire later - a solution to the social security crisis?

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001

As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...

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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"

Breyer, Friedrich - 2001

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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940

Herbst, Chris M. - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on maternal employment using 1940 and 1950 Census data...

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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions : Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Herbst, Chris M. - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have been recently studied, many other dimensions of family...

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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2021

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently,...

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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap

Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009

' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a exible semi …

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Gender differences in labor supply to monopsonistic firms : an empirical analysis using linked employer-employee data from Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2006

This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic … model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that … labor supply elasticities are small (0.9-2.4) and that women's labor supply to the firm is substantially less elastic than …

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Business organization theory with an application to organizing a research institute

Albach, Horst - In: Bildung, Beruf, Arbeitsmarkt, (pp. 303-315). 1988

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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration

Dustmann, Christian - 2011

This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...

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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Hirsch, Boris - 2012

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …

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