Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2001
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was tested,social security is thus good for growth. A...