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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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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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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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