Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Financial Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction to the International Handbook of Financial Literacy -- References -- Part I Conceptions of Financial Literacy -- 2 Financial Education in General Education Schools: A Competence...

Diese Studie betrachtet die finanziellen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf private Haushalte Ende des Jahres 2020. • Insgesamt geben knapp ein Viertel der Haushalte in Deutschland an, während der Corona-Krise im Jahr 2020 Einkommensverluste erlitten zu haben. Bezieht man auch...

Durch die Nutzung finanzieller Rücklagen zur Deckung der Haushaltsausgaben können aus kurzfristigen finanziellen Nöten langfristige finanzielle Probleme entstehen. Anhand von repräsentativen Umfragen, die wir zwischen Dezember 2020 und Februar 2023 durchgeführt haben, gehen wir drei Fragen...

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamentalreforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, onlyfeasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. Todetermine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system,we calculate...

The upcoming demographic crises in Germany demands fundamental reforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, only feasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. To determine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system, we...