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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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Are national pension systems efficient if labor is (im)perfectly mobile?
Breyer, Friedrich; Kolmar, Martin - In: Journal of public economics 83 (2002) 3, pp. 347-374
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Welfare effects of unfunded pension systems when labor supply is endogenous
Breyer, Friedrich - In: Journal of public economics 50 (1993) 1, pp. 77-91
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Setting the set point : initial predictors of life satisfaction in early adulthood
Trzcinski, Eileen (contributor); Holst, Elke (contributor) - 2006
In this article, we examine the patterns of association among a number of different factors that may contribute to differences in the initial baseline level of subjective well-being among young people in transition to adulthood. By examining the nature and patterns of these associations, we...
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Migration and money : what determines remittances? ; evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schrooten, Mechthild (contributor) - 2006
society matters. Second, the probability to remit is not dominated by income. Third, foreigners living in Germany are not a …
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
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Glass ceiling effect and earnings : the gender pay gap in managerial positions in Germany
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2009
study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who … proportion explained decreases to only one-third. This reveals the real extent to which women are disadvantaged on the labor … market. In addition, we observe not only that the wages in typical women's jobs are lower than in typical men's jobs but also …
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