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, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a reform in the German public pension system that allowed individuals with a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 reform, individuals with 45 contribution years could...
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Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...
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Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population ageing might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...
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The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish independence. Fiscal challenges are often quoted as a strong argument against independence. Demographic processes play an important role in determining future economic growth via...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been … necessary in the field of education, to limit the spread of the virus (like in all the fields affected by the pandemic). One of … these measures - the closure of schools, universities and other education institutions and the shift to online learning …
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This paper examines the impact of education and labour market challenges on the income inequality in European Union (27 … between the early leavers from education and training rate and income inequality. In addition, we used additional variables to …
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probit statistical analysis. The results indicate that investments in both ICT and education enhance the probability of …
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An overall picture of the education system in the countryside reveals that there are still schools that are not … importance that education has in in personal development of individuals and of society implicitly, there are not few schools that … terms of ensuring adequate infrastructure for a quality education or at least comparable to that in the urban area - clean …
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This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
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