This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations have similar incomes per capita but very different...

The present paper aims to quantify efficiency properties of real world social security systems of various institutional designs in order to identify an optimal pension design. Starting from a benchmark economy without social security, we introduce alternative pension systems and compare the...

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations have similar incomes per capita but very different...

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations have similar incomes per capita but very different...

The present paper aims to quantify efficiency properties of real world social security systems of various institutional designs in order to identify an optimal pension design. Starting from a benchmark economy without social security, we introduce alternative pension systems and compare the...

In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts of the pension systems. These reforms have a flavour of increased efficiency...

In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts of the pension systems. These reforms have a flavour of increased efficiency...

Many reform proposals of the social security systems in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts of the pension systems. These reforms have a flavor of increased efficiency at the costs of welfare losses for low-income individuals. Assessing the economic effects, we...

Bund und Länder haben sich im Juni 2001 auf eine Neuordnung des bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleichs, den Solidarpakt II sowie über die künftige Lastenverteilung beim Fonds »Deutsche Einheit« geeinigt. Bei den kommunalen Spitzenverbänden stieß der erzielte Kompromiss auf heftige Kritik....

Bund und Länder haben sich im Juni 2001 auf eine Neuordnung des bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleichs, den Solidarpakt II sowie über die künftige Lastenverteilung beim Fonds »Deutsche Einheit« geeinigt. Bei den kommunalen Spitzenverbänden stieß der erzielte Kompromiss auf heftige Kritik....