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  • Housing Market Regulations and Housing Market Performance in the United States, Germany, and Japan

    In: Rebecca M. Blank , Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility. Is There a Trade-off?
    Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
    119-156
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan
  • Germany - A Social Security System on the Verge of Collaps

    Germany has one of the most generous retirement systems in the world. At the very same time, Germany also faces one of the most incisive population aging processes. The ratio of workers to pensioners will decrease to about one to one within the next generation. This will put the German pay-as-you-go social security system under sever pressure. This paper has three aims. First, it shows that the design ...

    Mannheim: Universität Mannheim, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, 1997,
    (Arbeitspapier Nr. 97/023)
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan
  • Data and Research on Saving in Germany

    Mannheim: University of Mannheim, SfB 504, 2000,
    (Sonderforschungsberich 504 Publications No. 00-03)
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan
  • Incentive Effects of Social Security Under an Uncertain Disability Option

    In: Journal of Public Economics 78 (2000), 1-2, 25-49 | Axel H. Börsch-Supan
  • Reduction of Working Time: Does it Decrease Unemployment?

    Mannheim: Universität Mannheim, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, 2001,
    (Beiträge zur angewandten Wirtschaftsforschung No. 599a)
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan
  • Household Saving in Germany: Results of the first SAVE study

    In: Journal of Housing Economics 9 (2000), 1/2, 1-23 | Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Lothar Essig
  • Household Portfolios in Germany

    In: Luigi Guiso, Michael Haliassos, Tullio Japelli , Household Portfolios
    Cambridge and London: The MIT Press
    291-340
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Angelika Eymann
  • Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany

    Germans retire early. On the one hand, early retirement is very costly and amplifies the burden which the German public pension system has to carry due to population aging. On the other hand, however, early retirement is also seen as a much appreciated social achievement which increases the well-being especially of those workers who suffer from work-related health problems. This paper investigates ...

    In: David A. Wise , Developments in the Economics of Aging, A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Hendrik Jürges
  • Micro Modeling of Retirement Decisions in Germany

    In: Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise , Social Security and Retirement around the World: Micro-Estimation
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
    285-344
    | Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Simone Kohnz, Reinhold Schnabel
  • How Much is Transfer and How Much Insurance in a Pay-as-you-go System? The German Case

    Pay-as-you-go pension systems provide insurance against longevity-related old-age poverty and related risks. They are commonly also used as instruments for redistribution. This paper provides several estimates of the insurance and transfer share of the German public pension system. Estimating these shares is important because they are indicative of taxation-related deadweight losses and influence public ...

    In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 103 (2000), 3, 505-524 | Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held
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