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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994554
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Health and aging before and after retirement
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere Männer und Frauen aus 10 europäischen Ländern....
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287319
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Investors' portfolio choice and tax reforms : the 2008 German corporate tax reform reconsidered
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2015 - This version: March 2015
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest German corporate income and capital tax reform, which entails a major shift of the capital tax burden from the firm to the household level. Using a dynamic two-country computable general equilibrium model with integrated capital...
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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions
Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004
The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
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Illusion of expertise in portfolio decisions : an experimental approach
Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001
Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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Turkish delight does Turkey´s accession to the EU bring economic benefits?
Lejour, Arjan; Mooij, Ruud A. de - 2004
We explore the economic implications of the possible Turkish accession to the European Union. We focus on three main changes associated with Turkish membership: (i) accession to the internal European Market; (ii) institutional reforms in Turkey triggered by EU-membership; and (iii) migration in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402438
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Inter-temporal savings, current account dynamics and asymmetric shocks in a heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2010
spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account surplus by increasing wages to forestall a new build-up of … theory of optimum currency areas. We show that the asymmetric shock of the German unification can be seen not only as the … imbalances ; inter-temporal savings ; financial crisis ; euro crisis ; European debt crisis ; theory of optimum currency areas …
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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border
Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008
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