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Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge : private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich
Westerheide, Peter - 2001
Im langfristigen Zeithorizont der kapitalgedeckten Altersvorsorge kommt Kostenunterschieden zwischen verschiedenen Anlageformen große Bedeutung zu. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde das Kostenniveau von Rentenversicherungen und Investmentsparplänen, deren Guthaben bei Fälligkeit in eine...
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Nachgelagerte Besteuerung privater Altersvorsorgeaufwendungen : Auswirkungen auf die Alterseinkommen ausgewählter Haushaltstypen
Westerheide, Peter (contributor) - 2007
Gegenstand ist die Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der privaten, staatlich geförderten Altersvorsorge (Riester-Rente) auf die Alterseinkommen und die Konsummöglichkeiten im Alter nach Wohnkosten. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Simulationsmodell entwickelt, dass die Steuer- und Abgabenbelastung von...
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Cointegration of real estate stocks and REITs with common stocks, bonds and consumer price inflation : an international comparison
Westerheide, Peter (contributor) - 2006
Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. Results show that real estate securities in most countries had a high performance in … notable exception of Germany. In general, real estate securities seem to represent an asset class distinct from bonds and …
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Is there a difference? : The performance characteristics of SRI equity indexes
Schröder, Michael (contributor) - 2005
Investments in socially responsible investments (SRI) are still a small, but growing segment of international capital markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome compared to relevant conventional benchmark indexes....
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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age
Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
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Noncognitive skills, Internet use and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Gernandt, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...
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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
ICT services sector, reveal three findings: Firstly, firms with a higher share of younger employees are more likely to …, firms which enhanced their teamwork and have a higher share of younger workers are less likely to adopt new technologies … whereas firms that enhanced their teamwork and have a higher share of older employees are more likely to adopt new …
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R&D investment and financing constraints of small and medium-sized firms
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Binz, Hanna L. (contributor) - 2008
This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for R&D than...
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International stock return predictability under model uncertainty
Schrimpf, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
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