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German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency reforms, expropriations and territorial divisions, it provides unique insights into the role of country-specific shocks in...
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We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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the distribution of savings along the income and wealth distribution are of high interest for the question on whether … concentration of household savings in Germany by estimating saving amounts, saving rates and shares in aggregate savings for …,000 households in Germany. We show that the concentration of savings in Germany is substantial, as in 2013 the top income decile …
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