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Abstract How to treat families within the German pay-as-you-go financed social insurance systems - this question is repeatedly discussed. A closer look on the statutory pension scheme as well as the statutory health insurance and the care insurance scheme reveals indeed, that people without...
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der Schaffung korrekter Anreize für Entscheidungen zu Altersvorsorge und Humankapitalbildung und nicht zuletzt in der …. Essentially, schemes of this type would be based on an explicit link between public retirement pensions and both private and …
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Summary This paper examines the distributional and efficiency effects of pension privatization in Germany. Starting from a benchmark that reflects the current unfunded pension system, a fully funded system is introduced. The accrued benefits of the old system are financed by alternative tax...
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Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit stützt sich auf frühere Arbeiten von Kifmann (2001) und Buslei (2002) und untersucht eine Einbeziehung der Selbständigen in das System der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung ab dem Jahr 2005 im Rahmen eines numerischen Gleichgewichtsmodells überlappender...
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Abstract In the coalition agreement from February 7, 2018, the new German federal government drafts its public pension policy, which has to be evaluated against the background of demographic dynamics in Germany. In this paper, the consequences of public pensions related policy measures for the...
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Though they cover one-tenth of all adult Californians, the state’s two largest pension funds face a bleak future, with a combined deficit in the hundreds of billions of dollars. In this paper, we examine the politics and policies behind the state’s pension train wreck, identifying two primary...
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Summary The extent of the demographic change in Europe and especially Germany is dramatic and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and especially social security has received prominent attention, but aging poses many other economic...
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Summary We empirically investigate whether the significance of intragenerational redistribution in the public pillar of pension systems in 20 OECD countries has changed systematically since the 1980s and whether international convergence of the degree of intragenerational redistribution can be...
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ranging from real accidents, absences and retirement to experienced pleasure at work. Occupational group included two …
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a response to altered pension incentives and earnings opportunities. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we … examine retirement behavior after job loss, controlling for these changed retirement incentives, along with any additional … effects of displacement not captured by retirement incentives. We find that the observed increased rates of retirement among …
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