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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824262
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824328
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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016
of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509132
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210
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The prospects of the Baby Boomers : methodological challenges in projecting the lives of an aging cohort
Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - 2012
high educational attainment increase over time for men and women in East and West Germany. East German boomer women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541947
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824272
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407820
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Maintaining one's living standard at old age : what does that mean? ; evidence using panel data from Germany
Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013
How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766250
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Private retirement savings in Germany : the structure of tax incentives and annuitization
Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian - 2008
-favored retirement accounts in Germany in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633491
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2021
employment characteristics of women and men, we are able and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension … data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587610