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Origins of the German Welfare State : Social Policy in Germany to 1945

Stolleis, Michael - 2013

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. Stolleis: Historical Foundations - Social Policy in Germany to 1945: Introduction -- Social Protection in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern State: Alms, Poor Relief, Care, Social Help -- Social Policy in the German Empire: the Insurance Solution -- The...

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Social Security, Demographics, and Risk

Borgmann, Christoph (contributor) - 2005

This volume addresses the most important issues of the ongoing discussion on designing social security. It provides fundamental results for pay-as-you-go social security, covers the issues of social security during demographic transition and examines the inclusion of risk aspects into the...

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Zuwanderung und Arbeitsmarkt : Deutschland und Dänemark im Vergleich

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor); … - 2005

Deutschland und Dänemark -- Bildung und Ausbildung — Erfolge von Zuwanderern beim Humankapitalerwerb? -- Beschäftigung und … Deutschland? -- Sozio-ökonomische Bilanz der Zuwanderung -- Das deutsche Zuwanderungsgesetz — Aufbruch zu neuen Ufern … das vorliegende Buch in Form eines Vergleichs der ökonomischen Integration von Migranten in Dänemark und Deutschland. Auf …

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Althammer, Jörg (contributor) - 2005

Vom Umgang mit den Schattenseiten des Lebens: Die Familie als Stützsystem -- „Priorität für die Familie“ durch familiale Prävention -- Risiko- und Schutzfaktoren in der kindlichen Entwicklung -- Allgemeininteressen in Verhandlungssystemen -- Bürgerrecht für die Familie --...

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Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia : research and policy challenges

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The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net

Bound, John - 2010

In this paper we used the Health and Retirement Study to examine the health and economic status of those who collect Social Security retirement benefits prior to the full retirement age. We used a propensity score reweighting method to estimate the fraction of early retirees who use early...

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Financial Capability in the United States : Consumer Decision-Making and the Role of Social Security

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2010

This paper analyzes new data from the 2009 National Financial Capability Study. This survey provides information to assess how American households make financial decisions, how they are faring under current economic conditions, and in what ways financial knowledge contributes to financial...

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Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the U.S. Social Security System

Benitez-Silva, Hugo - 2011

Immigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension benefits, but also rely on other aspects of the social insurance system such as health care,...

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The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

Gustman, Alan L. - 2011

Studies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households with high...

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Behavioral Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving

Gustman, Alan L. - 2012

This paper specifies three behavioral variants of a structural model of retirement and saving to bring predicted Social Security claiming rates closer to the rates observed in the data. The model, estimated with Health and Retirement Study data, is used to examine three potential policies:...

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