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Financial literacy and retirement planning in the Netherlands

Rooij, Maarten van; Lusardi, Annamaria; Alessie, Rob - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 32 (2011) 4, pp. 593-608

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Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans : evidence from Dutch employees

Alessie, Rob; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 27 (2006) 4, pp. 483-501

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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2021

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …

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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use : The Mediating Role of Household Composition

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2018

In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...

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Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...

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Business Taxation and Wages : Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2012

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2008

This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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