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Economic choices and status: Measuring preferences for income rank
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2010
income, with greater weight given to rank by males, migrants, and individuals from wealthy families. Rank … income distribution. In terms of reference groups, we find migrants who reside abroad for longer periods of time, and with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274688
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004
differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262167
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Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform
Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a choice experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271279
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"Should I Pay for You or for Myself"? The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit Systems
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Cardoso, Pedro - 2001
Feldstein [1985] posed the questions of what would be the optimal level of retirement benefit, and what would be the optimal mix between the pay-as-you-go system and the funded pension system under the assumption of an exogenous interest rate. We reconsider the problem with the addition of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276956
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Preparing for policy changes: social security expectations and pension scheme participation
van der Wiel, Karen - 2008
Western governments are currently contemplating how to adapt their Pay-As-You-Go pension systems so that these remain financially sustainable, even with an aged population. To the extent that policy-makers haven't already adapted their old age social security schemes, an ageing population thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277208
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Emigration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2008
This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical model to illustrate that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269003
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The effects of aging on migration in a transition economy: The case of China
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272681
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269880
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. - 2006
social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
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Ethnic sorting in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Latten, Jan - 2007
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268497