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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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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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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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The effect of immigration on wages in three European countries

Hartog, Joop - 2002

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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"

Breyer, Friedrich - 2001

It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the...

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The pension transfer program

Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

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Frühverrentung in Deutschland : ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - 2002

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