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The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with advantages in employment and social security. The paper contains a brief history of the concept and its operational definition. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe,...
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Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular interest: His investigations on "Hours and Wages in Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On...
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey on trends in relationships between fertility patterns … in relation to fertility patterns", 1972), reviews the impact of social change on parental and sex roles, equal …
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In a period of very low fertility, effective family and childcare support policy measures are needed. From a wide range … of instruments available to government intervention, we focus on public expenditures effects on short-term fertility …
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Sweden's welfare commitment is one of the most extensive of all high-income countries. Total social expenditures in Sweden - public and private - on pensions, health care and sickness insurance, family policy, unemployment insurance and employment services, and benefits and care services for the...
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We examine the effects of changes of government provided old age pensions on fertility choices in the context of two … models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inpired by Caldwell and developed by Boldrin and Jones … public pension system on fertility in the Barro and Becker model depends on whether child rearing costs are primarily in …
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This paper examines how social security reform and childcare support affect fertility and social welfare, based on a … simple overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility. In an open economy with no altruism, introducing a childcare …
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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat entschieden, dass die Erhebung einheitlicher Beitragssätze in der Gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung für Personen mit und ohne Kinder gegen den Gleichheitsgrundsatz der Verfassung verstoße. In dieser Arbeit prüfen wir unterschiedliche Argumente dafür,...
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In a period of very low fertility, effective family and childcare support policy measures are needed. From a wide range … of instruments available to government intervention, we focus on public expenditures effects on short-term fertility …
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fertility wherein children are valued both as consumption and investment goods. Our focus is strictly on the pension dimension …
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