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Pensionamento flessibile e (ri)equilibrio tra generazioni
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper proposes a method to speed up the transition toward the notional contributions pension system in Italy. It seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes percentages for abating the old retributive pensions...
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The unemployment insurance in Germany - does it cause or does it help to overcome unemployment?
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Entwicklungen sein. This work analyzes the effects of the German unemployment insurance system on the unemployment rate and the … individual job-seeking behavior. The duration of the unemployment benefits affects the time spend in unemployment. Another effect … is the span between available jobs and the level of the payments. At the same time, a longer duration of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum
canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789327
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A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation
Groot, Loek; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151574
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Governance & Economic Growth
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper looks at some of the fundamental ideas in contemporary economics such as the basic economic problem, opportunity cost and allocation a person is expected to encounter when they are first introduced to economic theory. It attempts to explain how the manner in which these concepts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685377
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Health insurance reform and bankruptcy
Kuklik, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009), 62.1 percent of bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were due to medical reasons. At the same time over 15 percent of Americans had no health insurance. The 2010 health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112090
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Unionised Labour Market, Unemployment Allowances, Productive Public Expenditure and Endogenous Growth
Bhattacharyya, Chandril; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
on the interaction between the tax financed productive public expenditure and unemployment benefit policy of the … presence (absence) of unemployment benefit. Unionisation may be good or bad for the economy in the case of Efficient bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109078
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835397
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PAYG pensions, tax-cum-subsidy and optimality
Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a simple OLG small open economy with endogenous fertility we show that the command optimum can be decentralised in a market setting using both a PAYG transfer from the young (old) to the old (young) and a tax-cum-subsidy (subsidy-cum-tax) policy, to redistribute within the working age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545983
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Modelling the pension system in an overlapping-generations general equilibrium modelling framework
Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This article presents a theoretical contribution to the field of overlapping-generations general equilibrium modelling, i.e. an upgrade of this branch of models with a pension system. Within the pension block we model both the first pension pillar, financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616809