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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...

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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Hernaes, Øystein - 2018

The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...

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Time to care? The effects of retirement on informal care provision

Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: Journal of Health Economics 73 (2020)

This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address fundamental endogeneity problems by exploiting variation in the German pension system in two complementary ways. We find a significant effect of retirement on informal care...

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Bessere Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege kann Zielkonflikt zwischen Renten- und Pflegepolitik lösen

Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 87 (2020) 46, pp. 853-860

Pflegebedürftige lassen sich bevorzugt von Angehörigen oder FreundInnen zuhause pflegen. Dieser sogenannten informellen Pflege wird auch im Gesetz Vorrang vor formeller, stationärer Pflege eingeräumt. Für viele Angehörige entsteht jedoch ein Zeitkonflikt zwischen der Pflegearbeit und ihrer...

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Von der Grundrente zum Lebenserwartungsfaktor

Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Seuffert, Stefan - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 100 (2020) 10, pp. 774-781

expansive measures and introduces a measure aiming towards increased fiscal sustainability. The two measures consist of the … pension scheme. Both measures increase the sustainability gap by 10% of GDP and will oppose the fundamental principles of the … retirement which could potentially reduce the pension system's sustainability gap by half of the initial magnitude. …

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Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies

Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...

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Life expectancy heterogeneity and pension fairness: An Italian North-South divide

Culotta, Fabrizio - In: Risks 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-22

This work documents a persistent life expectancy heterogeneity by gender and geography in Italy during the period 1995-2019. Based on deviations of life expectancy at age 65, it quantifies the implicit tax/subsidy mechanism triggered when pensions annuities are computed by adopting the same...

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The outlines of a possible pension system funded with human capital

Banyár, József - In: Risks 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-32

The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essence of the problem is that the PAYG system distributes the yield of raising children, i.e., of human capital investment (which is essentially the pension contribution), in such a way that it disregards the...

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Demographic transition and its impacts on fiscal sustainability in East and Southeast Asia

Majoe, Adam - 2021

implications for fiscal sustainability and necessitate comprehensive reviews of public health spending; healthcare reforms that …

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Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory

Dahl, Espen S.; Hernaes, Øystein - 2022

Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients...

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