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Should Pensions Be Progressive? Yes, at Least In Germany!
Fehr, Hans - 2011
Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population aging might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...
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Health and Aging Before and after Retirement
Abeliansky, Ana; Strulik, Holger - 2021
We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 European countries. Occupational groups are classified...
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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Comertpay, Rana - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country
Candel-Haug, Katharina - 2019
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
Haaland, Ingar - 2020
Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then provide respondents in the treatment group with research...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Does Labor Protection Increase Support for Immigration? Evidence from Switzerland
Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021
What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...
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