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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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Die Rentenformel in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2003
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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … adjustment of time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working … widowed. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less …
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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
Kurowska, Anna - 2015
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in...
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Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-Offs : Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Myck, Michal - 2013
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
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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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Optionen der Weiterentwicklung des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der GKV
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001
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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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