Despite the easing of prices on the energy markets, private households continue to be burdened by elevated prices. The planned increase the planned increase in the carbon price for transport and heating will raise the burden on private households even further. These additional costs are unequally distributed and have a regressive effect, as poor households must spend much more relative to their net ...
In the recent economic crises, Germany has made use of job retention schemes and in particular short-time work benefits ('Kurzarbeit') to tackle shocks in labor demand. Under these schemes, workers have not been laid off and received unemployment benefits, but reduced their working hours (or stopped working) for a limited amount of time while receiving short-time leave benefits. While the effect...
Der Ausbau der zusätzlichen Altersvorsorge beispielsweise in Form der Riester-Rente oder betrieblicher Modelle seit den Rentenreformen vor gut 20 Jahren hat zu einem Anstieg bei den Zahlen zusätzlicher Altersvorsorge geführt. Eine hinreichend weite Verbreitung gibt es jedoch nicht. Was überdies fehlt, sind Zahlen dazu, wie die gesetzliche und private Vorsorge in einem Mehrsäulensystem ineinandergreifen ...
