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Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...
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Life expectancies are rapidly increasing and uncertain in all countries in Europe. To keep pension systems affordable, policy reforms are to be implemented which will encourage individuals to work longer. In this paper we analyze the impact of working and living longer on pension incomes in five...
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This paper analyses the distributional effects of the Polish old-age pension reform introduced in 1999. Following a benchmark Mincer earnings equation, and using a newly developed microsimulation model we project future pension benefits for males born in years 1969-1979. We find that inequality...
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the population aged 50 and more in terms of unemployment, alcohol consumption, and poverty. It concludes that, despite the …
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Erreichen gesetzlich Rentenversicherte 35 oder 45 Jahre an anrechenbaren Zeiten, dürfen diese Personen ab einem Alter von 63 Jahren oder maximal zwei Jahre vor ihrer individuellen Regelaltersgrenze vorzeitig, das heißt früher als zu ihrer individuellen Regelaltersgrenze, ihre Altersrente...
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unemployment traps in the population and characterize the population subgroups associated with low work incentives. According to … work of individuals receiving earnings-related unemployment benefits are lower than of those receiving flat …-rate unemployment benefits, and the incentives of individuals receiving child home care allowance are better than the incentives of …
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In dieser Analyse wird auf Basis der Mikrozensen aus den Jahren 1991, 1993 und 1995 die zunehmende Verbreitung der Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in der Bundesrepublik nachgezeichnet. Anschließend wird untersucht, inwieweit diese auf die Veränderung der Wirtschaftsstruktur zurückzuführen ist....
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Applying data from 13 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (1991-2003) I assess costs and benefits of fixed-term contracts. First, I analyze the existence of a contract related wage gap and the effort response of temporary employees in terms of unpaid overtime hours. Second, I investigate...
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Die Grenzabgabenbelastung ist eine relevante Größe für die Einkommenserzielung und die Entscheidung, ob und in welchem zeitlichen Umfang die eigene Arbeitskraft auf dem Arbeits-markt angeboten wird. Bei Beschäftigten, die keine Sozialtransfers beziehen, hängt die margi-nale Belastung sowohl...
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