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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 to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
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15 years of pension reform in Germany : old successes and new threats
Bonin, Holger - 2009
-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a … ; Financial Crisis ; Fiscal Sustainability Survey ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857711
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Intrinsic work motivation and pension reform acceptance
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja; Moessinger, … - 2011
Although demographic change leaves pay-as-you-go pension systems unsustainable, reforms, such as a higher pension age, are highly unpopular. This contribution looks into the role of intrinsic motivation as a driver for pension reform acceptance. Theoretical reasoning suggests that this driver...
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Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge : private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich
Westerheide, Peter - 2001
Investmentsparplänen, deren Guthaben bei Fälligkeit in eine private Rentenversicherung gegen Einmalzahlung umgewandelt werden, untersucht … Versicherungsprämien mit Prämien, die sich aus den aktuellen Sterbetafeln für die private Rentenversicherung errechnen. Im Ergebnis wird … beginnende Rentenversicherung. Die erforderliche Zusatzrendite der Investmentfonds beträgt in den hier unterschiedenen Szenarien …
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Clustering life trajectories : a new divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm for discrete-valued discrete time series
Dlugosz, Stephan - 2011
A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16–65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901833
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2003
-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448565
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Emissions trading and productivity : firm-level evidence from German manufacturing
Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2016
I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German manufacturing firms. Using administrative firm-level data, I estimate robust production functions for narrowly defined industries. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic...
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The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency : an empirical analyses for German manufacturing firms
Löschel, Andreas; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes; Managi, Shunsuke - 2016
manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574888
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...
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