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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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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : an ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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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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