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Die Riester-Förderung soll dazu beitragen, dass häufiger und mehr für die Altersvorsorge gespart wird. Der Einfluss der Riester-Förderung auf die Sparneigung von Haushalten mit niedrigem Einkommen ist dabei ein zentrales Kriterium zur ökonomischen Evaluation dieser Politik. Unsere...
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In 2001 the German government started to promote the development of private pensions by means of special saving subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the...
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Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
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Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941676
In 2001 the German government started to promote the development of private pensions by means of special saving subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655012
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
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Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
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in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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level would be noticeably lower than it actually is. -- Demography ; income inequality ; inequality decomposition …In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …
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Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
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