English Abstract: Many governments offer tax concessions for retirement contributions to boost retirement savings and alleviate the fiscal pressures of population aging. In this paper, we show that income responses are crucial for understanding these impacts. Using tax-register data, we study...

"In this article the contributions to the unemployment insurance scheme and the expenditure on the benefits under this scheme are estimated from the microdata of the IAB employment sample for the period 1980-1989. The distribution of contributions and expenditure is estimated according to three...

"Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht der Zusammenhang zwischen der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit und der sich anschließenden Beschäftigungsdauer. Diese Beziehung wird mit Hilfe von Längsschnittdaten, nämlich der Beschäftigtenstatistik und der Statistik der Leistungsempfänger bei...

"In the article the extent and distribution of recalls in the Federal Republic of Germany are examinded for the first time and are related to all the cases of recruitment in employment covered by the social security system. The empirical results are based on the evaluations of the IAB employment...