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Demographic change, endogenous labor supply and the political feasibility of pension reform
Breyer, Friedrich; Stolte, Klaus - 2000
Options for reforming unfunded public pension schemes that are now being discussed all share the feature that the burden induced by demographic change would be shifted towards presently living and away from unborn generations. Existing models of the political economy of pension reform can not...
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Zufriedenheit mit der Altersvorsorge und Präferenzen für alternative Sicherungsmodelle : Empirische Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2004
finanziellen Alterssicherung deutlich unzufriedener ist als die ältere. Dieser Effekt ist unabhängig von der ökonomischen Situation …. Trotz der deutlich gestiegenen Unzufriedenheit mit der Alterssicherung stehen große Teile der Bevölkerung einer … privatwirtschaftlich organisierten Altersvorsorge skeptisch gegenüber. Ganz allgemein kann gezeigt werden, dass mit ihrer Alterssicherung …
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The role of credibility and fundamentals in a funded pension system: a Markov switching analysis for Australia and Iceland
Bonasia, Mariangela; Napolitano, Oreste - 2007
Since the turn of the millennium the problem of credibility of the social security system has spread to the private pension funds sector. This is evident for those countries, like Australia and Iceland, that have very large funded pensions assets as a result of strong pension reforms. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265691
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts: A microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271582
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Probleme einer steigenden Lebenserwartung in der privaten Rentenversicherung : Theorie und Empirie für Deutschland
Leinert, Johannes; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
entgegnen. Für Deutschland wird anhand der Umstellung der Rechungsgrundlagen auf die Sterbetafel DAV 1994 R gezeigt, dass es zu …
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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271143
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272280
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie F. - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272283
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
The European Union?s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants? identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
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