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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
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Will it last? : An assessment of the 2001 German pension reform
Bonin, Holger - 2001
, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient …In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … moderate economic conditions. However, the new private pension plans provide scope for further downsizing state pensions …
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"Should I pay for you or for myself?" : the optimal level and composition of retirement benefits systems
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001
Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...
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Using employer hiring behavior to test the educational signaling hypothesis
Albrecht, James W.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2001
This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are more likely to lower educational standards when an...
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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002
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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Results from the IZA international employer survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
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The value of pain relief
Furnée, Carina; Kemler, Marius; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch workers with peripheral nerve injuries. Randomized clinical trial data and individual medical records from injured workers are compared with administrative data of healthy...
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Effects of sexual preferences on earnings in the Netherlands
Plug, Erik J. S.; Berkhout, Peter - 2001
A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine whether sexual preferences affect earnings in the beginning of working careers in the Netherlands....
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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001
We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
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