Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist eine Quantifizierung der Pensionsausgaben für die jeweiligen Länderhaushalte im Zeitablauf. Zwar wurden die Pensionsverpflichtungen in den Versorgungsberichten vereinzelter Länderfinanzministerien bereits beschrieben, allerdings liegen damit keine...

Der dringend notwendige Reformierungsbedarf in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung hat in jüngster Zeit verschiedene Reformkonzepte auf den Weg gebracht. Unter anderem auch den einer Bürgerpflegeversicherung, welche die Ausweitung des Umlageverfahrens auf die gesamte Bevölkerung vollzieht. Im...

During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...

Die Einführung eines jeden auf dem Umlageverfahren basierenden Systems verursacht – bei unterstellter Alterung der Bevölkerung – eine intergenerative Umverteilung zu Gunsten der ersten Generationen und zu Lasten jüngerer und nachwachsender Generationen. Am Beispiel der Einführung der...

Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many economists. In order to increase work incentives and,...

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment...

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill?biased...

At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...