Das Solidarische Bürgergeld sieht die Gewährung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens für Erwachsene in Höhe von monatlich 800 € pro Kopf und eines Kinderbürgergeldes in Höhe von 500 € pro Kind vor, von denen jeweils 200 € den Charakter einer Gesundheits- und Pflegeprämie haben....

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl und Thilo Schaefer, Finanzwissenschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln, analysieren die Beschäftigungs- und Finanzierungswirkungen des Grundeinkommens-Konzepts von Dieter Althaus. Ihrer Meinung nach entlastet das vorgeschlagene Modell nicht den...

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability insurance programs can also play a significant...

The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase...

What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers...

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject....

Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate. It also explores how these ongoing trends will affect future beneficiaries, under both the current social...

What accounts for the striking decline in labor force participation at increasingly younger ages? Social Security and Retirement around the World examines one explanation: social security programs actually provide incentives for early retirement. This volume houses a set of remarkable papers...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages...