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The ageing of populations and hampering economic growth increase pressure on public fi-nances in many advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, governments have adopted pen-sion reforms in order to relieve pressure on public finances. These reforms have contributed to a relative shift from...
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This second edition of Pensions at a Glance updates all the important indicators of retirement-income systems developed …’ pension regimes. The report starts by showing the different schemes that together make up national retirement income provision … debates. Finally, the report provides detailed background information on each of the 30 countries’ retirement …
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away from individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Although the idea is provocative, we conclude that the notion of “moving …
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Anfang diesen Jahres wurden die Ergebnisse der Studie "Altersvorsorge in Deutschland 1996 (AVID '96)" veröffentlicht …
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Anfang diesen Jahres wurden die Ergebnisse der Studie "Altersvorsorge in Deutschland 1996 (AVID '96)" veröffentlicht …
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Seit der Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland streitet man in Politik und Wissenschaft über eine adäquate Finanzausstattung der Gemeinden. Hierbei sind die Steuereinnahmen, die allerdings deutlich unter 50% der kommunalen Einnahmen liegen, aufgrund ihrer Fühlbarkeit, und hier insbesondere...
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Analysen zur Struktur und der Verteilung eines Phänomens benötigen vor allem Mikrodaten, also Daten der individuell Betroffenen. Wir wollen in unserem vorliegenden Beitrag eine neue mächtige Mikrodatenquelle für Einkommensanalysen vorstellen, die Einkommensteuerstatistik mit anonymisierten...
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The nexus between government revenue and government expenditure always wins the attention of policy makers and think tanks while they work four making fiscal policies for an economy. This paper is an empirical investigation on the unidirectional causality between government expenditures and the...
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This paper reviews the literature on taxable-income elasticities, focusing primarily on empirical studies examining the U.S. tax changes of 1981, 1986, 1990, and 1993 and the bracket creep of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The paper first provides background on the importance of the elasticity...
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The article discusses the central conclusions of the study "Evaluation of Regional Fiscal Framework: Business Location and Local Finance" (Barreira, 2008). A reflection on some of the core principles of local finance, equity and benefit, shows that there are inconsistencies in the case of the...
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