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Incentives to retire later : a solution to the social security crisis?
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001
As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...
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Sharing demographic risk : who is afraid of the baby bust
Ludwig, Alexander - 2008
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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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Government incentives when pollution permits are durable goods
Haucap, Justus; Kirstein, Roland - Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik <Hamburg> - 2001
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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?
Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006
enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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Self-rated health and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from German panel data
Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2000
, there have been no studies conducted for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) we confirm … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …
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