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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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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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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 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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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …

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Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility : Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers

Dustmann, Christian - 2007

This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...

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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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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

Dustmann, Christian - 2012

Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … control for correlated individual-specific effects in both selection- and wage equations. We conclude that migrant women … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …

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