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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
Bonin, Holger - 2001
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …
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The German social long-term care insurance: structure and reform options
Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2007
Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social … introduced in Germany. In recent years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure turned out to be in need … Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social networks are leading to a greater …
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Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Schneider, Hilmar; Bonin, Holger - 2005
Der Beitrag untersucht die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer vom Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund vorgeschlagenen Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge über einen allgemeinen Freibetrag. Im Rahmen eines mit SOEP-Daten geschätzten diskreten Arbeitsangebotsmodells werden die Wohlfahrtseffekte des Konzepts...
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Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogenous labour: Empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …' social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …
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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca; Messina, Julián - 2017
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period characterized by high inflation. As inflation...
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
some form of indexation mechanism which affects wages. Cluster analysis identifies three country groupings of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269067
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Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries
Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2011
are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … sample period, 1995-2004: (i) in Uruguay wage indexation declines, while workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts becomes …
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Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay
Danziger, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper explains why a union and a firm might settle on a contract duration that may later be extended and characterizes the optimal backpay for the holdout period. It is shown that the choice between concluding a shorter contract that may be extended and immediately concluding a longer...
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Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries
Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … sample period, 1995-2004: (i) in Uruguay wage indexation declines, while workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149154