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Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economicand demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market....
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The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...
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This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
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Es ist mittlerweile weitgehend unbestritten, dass der demographische Wandel eine grundlegende Reform der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung erforderlich macht. Dies soll im Wesentlichen durch die Einführung einer Zusatzrente auf Kapitalbasis (Teilkapitaldeckungsverfahren) erfolgen. Der Beitrag...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert Wege in Europa, die finanzpolitische Probleme lösen sollen. Die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Bedingungen haben sich – national wie weltweit – ständig geändert, so dass immer wieder neue Anpassungen erforderlich waren und auch zukünftig immer...
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While the European population grew older, the avergae effective exit age from the labour market has fallen dramatically during recent decades, mainly due to the development of pre- and early retirement systems in an effort to combat youth unemployment...
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We study the eect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-savingtechnical change and ask how this eect is inuenced by institutional characteristics of the pensionscheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increaselabor...
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Seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre hat der Gesetzgeber eine Reihe von sozialrechtlichen Reformmaßnahmenerlassen, um dem Trend zur frühzeitigen Ausgliederung von Älteren aus demErwerbsleben entgegenzuwirken (siehe dazu Büttner/Knuth, 2004 - Altersübergangs-Report2004-01). Als wichtigstes...
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Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardlysurprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECDGDP in 2005; and this pension spending effort is set to increase significantly over the comingdecades in response to...
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Much of the industrialized world is undergoing a significantdemographic shift, placing strain on public pension systems. Policymakers are responding with pension system reforms that put more weight on privately managed retirement funds. One concern with these changes is the effect on individual...
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