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Promoting Permanent Employment: Lessons from Spain
Mendez, Ildefonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents the first joint evaluation of the two major labour market reforms implemented in Spain to foster permanent employment in 1994 and 1997. The 1994 reform restored the principle of causality in the application of temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619505
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Labor disruption costs and real wages cyclicality
Cervini-Plá, María; Silva, José I.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we propose a matching and search model with adjustment costs in the form of labor disruption charges that can generate counter-cyclical real wages. Empirically, we use a measure of wage cyclicality based on the generalized impulse response function of real wages to a shock in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107808
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Health insurance as a productive factor
Dizioli, Allan; Pinheiro, Roberto B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we present a less-explored channel through which health insurance impacts productivity: by offering health insurance, employers reduce the expected time workers spend out of work in sick days. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we show that a worker with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112740
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Better Safe than Sorry - Individual Risk-Free Pension Schemes in the European Union
Peeters, Marga - 2012
citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout their working life. Second, they would pay hardly … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114018
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Features that influence the exit decision from the private pension system in Turkey
Kayam, Saime S.; Parkın, Mehmet Koray; Çeliktopuz, Merih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and features such as education level,occupation, total accumulated savings, geographical regions, pension sales channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259617
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“Better Safe than Sorry” - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union - Macroeconomic Benefits, the Mobile Working Citizen’s Perspective and Why Nots
Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout their working life. Second, they would pay hardly … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322625
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Retirement Plan Participation in the United States: Do Public Sector Employees Save More?
Chatterjee, Swarn; Zahirovic-Herbert, Velma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study examines retirement plan participation and savings behavior for American public and private sector employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540988
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Retirement planning: conceptualisation, challenges and policy options
Adenutsi, Deodat E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The central objective of this paper is to explain the concept and relevance of retirement planning within a vibrant Christian organisation such as the Assemblies of God’s Church. In particular, an attempt is made to expose participants to the theoretical relevance and application of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876891
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Reformed Pensions Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges to future safe pension benefits
Lazarevski, Dimche; Mrsik, Jadranka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to examine and analyze empirically whether the Central and Eastern Europe countries` reformed pension systems are providing adequate and safe pensions. Starting in 1990s, most Central and Eastern European countries radically reformed their pension systems. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111834
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Hiring older employees: Do incentives of early retirement channels matter?
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Ilmakunnas, Seija - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We examine the impact of a Finnish reform in the 1990s that restricted the use of particular early retirement channels, unemployment pension and individual early retirement, and simultaneously changed the rules of firm size related experience rating in disability pensions. Our emphasis is on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018277