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We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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. Average savings increase|especially for the financially less literate. We conclude that simplification of pension information … can potentially reduce disparities in pension planning and savings behavior. …
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. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be …. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local markets over recruitment of competent candidates and local organizers … authoritarian and persistently "bad" leadership. Our model can be applied to other labor recruitment settings. …
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