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Much of the industrialized world is undergoing a significant demographic 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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health and financial settings. However, there is limited understanding of the extent and underlying factors of hypothetical … bias within the context of health insurance. This study contributes to this understanding and explores the extent of … hypothetical bias and its correlation with personality traits and behavioral patterns in a health insurance setting. Using large …
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The development of expenditure for care services is one of the most intensively debated topics in public. However … Berechnung der sogenannten Pflegelücke betrachten allerdings nur die finanziellen Implikationen für die Pflegeversicherung auf … einem geringeren Maße. Unterstellt man hingegen, dass die Transfers der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung nicht mit den …
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Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the impact of the Great Recession on subjective well-being (as measured by life satisfaction) and attempt to identify disparate effects by age. We find that those...
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German consumers choose between the two settings through directing payments from the Federal Health Fund to social health …
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Micro-econometric intra-cohort profitability analyses of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension contributions are rare. We use representative employment histories of a birth cohort of German PAYG pension insurants retiring in year 2005 to econometrically examine the determinants of the profitability of...
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To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
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To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362934
To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052317
health as well as being a man are positively correlated to the actuarial reduction rate the respondents would accept at most …
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