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I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar women on either side of the kink point. I find that a 100 euro …
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indigenous families follows rules closely related to patriarchal family structures (in which women have limited decision …
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indigenous families follows rules closely related to patriarchal family structures (in which women have limited decision …
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This paper estimates the aggregate effects of government income transfers shocks for a sample of EU countries. I construct a new measure of transfers shocks based on a dataset by public finance experts of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The identification strategy consists of a...
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This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women …'s retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point …
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nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …
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As a result of political reforms, pension provision in Germany is the task of a multipillar model including private and … two countries shows that the Austrian system provides much higher benefits. Economic developments in Germany and Austria …
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...
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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
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The 2014 pension reform has three main components. First disability pensions have been increased by about two earnings points, an average monthly gain of 40 euros. In addition low wages in the four years preceding disability-related retirement will now be disregarded. However, since these new...
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