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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831

Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement

Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514130

How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994

One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany

Werding, Martin - 2016

Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked … recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as Germany will be ageing very rapidly in the near future. Following a …

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …

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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries

Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003

, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

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Transferable ageing provisions in individual health insurance contracts

Baumann, Florian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 2004

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The stock of capital accumulated for each individual can be split into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, where the latter would be transferable...

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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …

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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …

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