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Systeme Der Sozialen Sicherung in Ägypten : Entwicklungstendenzen, Erfahrungen Anderer Geber Und Ansatzpunkte Für Die Deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Social Protection in Egyp...
Loewe, Markus - 2013
This paper analyses Egypt's social protection systems. It asks why poverty is so widespread and why – despite the country's numerous sophisticated social protection systems - social risks are a major contributing factor to poverty in Egypt. It concludes that reforms are due. The existing...
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Inter-Cohort Risk Sharing with Long-Term Guarantees : Evidence from German Participating Contracts
Hombert, Johan; Möhlmann, Axel; Weiß, Matthias - 2021
Long-term minimum return guarantees sold by European life insurers increasingly become binding as interest rates decline. While participating contracts embedding these guarantees are designed to share market risk across investor cohorts when guarantees are not binding, we study how binding...
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Inter-cohort risk sharing with long-term guarantees : evidence from German participating contracts
Hombert, Johan; Möhlmann, Axel; Weiß, Matthias - 2021
Long-term minimum return guarantees sold by European life insurers increasingly become binding as interest rates decline. While participating contracts embedding these guarantees are designed to share market risk across investor cohorts when guarantees are not binding, we study how binding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497374
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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This version: March 20, 2014
We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and … with a contribution rate of two percent leads to welfare gains of 2.2% of lifetime consumption in expectation, despite … substantial crowding out of capital. This welfare gain stands in contrast to the welfare losses documented in the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359333
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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This Version: July 9, 2014
We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and … with a contribution rate of two percent leads to welfare gains of 2.2% of lifetime consumption in expectation, despite … substantial crowding out of capital. This welfare gain stands in contrast to the welfare losses documented in the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374428
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Fiscal and Social Policy : Financing Long-Term Care in Germany
Götze, Ralf - 2014
This paper deals with the coverage of long-term care (LTC) in Germany since the post-war period. Until the 1990s, long-term care was mainly a task of the family with means-tested, tax-financed care assistance as a last resort. In 1994, after two decades of political debate, the German parliament...
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Active Unemployment Insurance
Røed, Knut - 2012
The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for - in both unemployment and disability insurance - to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331393
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Active unemployment insurance
Røed, Knut - 2012
The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long - lasting decline in labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546532
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Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Finanzierung der Erwerbsminderungsrente
Münstermann, Leonard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 5, pp. 356-363
Während die Mütterrente und die Rente mit 63 kontrovers diskutiert werden, gilt dies nicht für die im Rentenpaket der Bundesregierung ebenfalls vorgesehenen Änderungen an der Erwerbsminderungsrente. Die geplanten Änderungen verbessern zwar die Situation von zukünftigen...
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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System : Evidence from German Notch Cohorts
Fischer, Bjoern; Geyer, Johannes Micha; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health shocks prevent employees from working in their previous...
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