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This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
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Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
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This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...
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Thanks to recent reforms, projections suggest that public pension expenditure as a share of GDP might be no higher in 2060 than in 2013 for the EU. However, the adequacy of pensions is also important; if reforms leave an increasing number of older citizens without adequate incomes, they will...
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In an overlapping-generations model with endogenous birth rates, I design a reform of the pay-as-you-go pension system, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their preferences for children and their ability to have children...
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occurs less often than it is desired. In particular, a change in behaviour can be observed in the cohort of pensioners born …
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Laut Bundesverfassungsgericht ist die unterschiedliche Besteuerung von Beamtenpensionen und Renten nicht mit dem Gleichheitssatz des Grundgesetzes vereinbar. Dieser Feststellung folgend stellt Prof. Dr. Eckart Bomsdorf, Universität zu Köln, zunächst Ansätze zur Steuerfreistellung der...
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Political connections between firms and autocratic regimes are not secret and often even publicly displayed in many developing economies. We argue that tying a firm's available rent to a regime’s survival acts as a credible commitment forcing entrepreneurs to support the government and to...
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government performance and development. Looking at history, political science, economic and institutional perspectives, the role … examining Philippine governance and the roles of policymakers and voters more deterministically. Patronage and political … shown that certain activities used to perpetuate patronage and dynasties (also called family networks) such as coercion …
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The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …
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