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The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions : VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany
Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321181
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
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How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264592
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
not, but contrast sharply with the predictions of more conventional models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331423
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632739
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A Constitutional Theory of the Family
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
not, but contrast sharply with the predictions of more conventional models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762141
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How to avoid a pension crisis: A question of intelligent system design.
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518866
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005
contrast sharply with the predictions of more conventional models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518904
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051548