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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536015
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2004
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297384
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097743
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15 years of pension reform in Germany: old successes and new threats
Bonin, Holger - 2009
The paper surveys the state of German pension system after a sequence of reforms aimed at achieving long-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, and that this move has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298806
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Intrinsic work motivation and pension reform acceptance
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja; Moessinger, … - 2011
(increasing pension age, increasing contributions, cutting pensions) can be analyzed within the framework of an optimal job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305880
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Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bohne, Albrecht; Frölich, Markus - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140942
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Die Anatomie des Berufswechsels: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme auf Basis der BIBB/IAB-Daten 1998/1999
Spitz, Alexandra; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2004
Unter dem Stichwort "Patchwork-Biografien" wird die Tatsache, dass ein großer Teil der abhängig Beschäftigten ihren erlernten Beruf nicht mehr ausüben, in jüngster Zeit viel diskutiert. Diese Studie liefert einen empirischen Beitrag zur Anatomie der Berufswechsel für westdeutsche Männer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297321
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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - 2004
This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297367
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B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?
Bertschek, Irene; Fryges, Helmut; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2004
We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297371
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2004
Using the model recently developed by Jaumandreu (2003) this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by CIS data. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297395