In June 2012, the regulatory framework for a promising new retirement savings vehicle, Pooled Registered Pension Plans (PRPPs), was passed into Canadian federal legislation. The hope is that PRPPs will improve pension coverage and retirement-saving outcomes by reducing costs and improving...

In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich person's income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...

This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefor we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty for the entire population of children, wether they become...

Die Zunahme der selbständigen Beschäftigung vor allem in Form von Ein Personen Unternehmen kann langfristig zu individuellen und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Problemen bei der Altersversorgung führen. Wie kann Altersarmut bei diesem Personenkreis vermieden werden? Wie sollte deren Altersvorsorge...