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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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In:
Regina T. Riphahn, Dennis J. Snower, Klaus F. Zimmermann ,
Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
83-102
| Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Peter Schmidt
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In:
Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise ,
Social Security and Retirement around the World (A NBER Conference Report)
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
| Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Reinhold Schnabel
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In:
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead ,
The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU
Geneva: ILO
149-178
| Gerhard Bosch, Thorsten Kalina
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In:
Gerhard Bosch, Claudia Weinkopf ,
Low-Wage Work in Germany
New York: Russell Sage Foundation
19-112
| Gerhard Bosch, Thorsten Kalina
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Palma de Mallorca:
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ),
2008,
(ECINEQ WP 2008-87)
| Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarthy, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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A central issue underlying the concept of transitional labour markets is that moving between different employment statuses can lead to social integration rather than exclusion. In this chapter we assess the extent to which part-time work provides an integrating bridge for those outside the labour market in Britain and Germany. Structural divisions in a given labour market can have a significant effect ...
In:
Jacqueline O'Reilly, Inmaculada Cebrián, Michel Lallement ,
Working-Time Changes. Social Integration Through Transitional Labour Markets
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
132-172
| Silke Bothfeld, Jacqueline O'Reilly
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Affective habituation is well-documented in social sciences: people seem to adapt to many life events, ranging from lottery windfalls to terminal illnesses. A group of studies have tried to measure habituation by seeing how lagged values of life events affect present happiness. We propose an additional adaptation channel: current happiness may depend directly on past happiness, which amounts to assessing ...
In:
The Journal of Socio-Economics
40 (2011), 3, 224-236
| Nicolas Luis Bottan, Ricardo Pérez Truglia
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In:
Labour
18 (2004), 2, 233-263
| Spiros Bougheas, Yannis Georgellis
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In studies of subjective well-being, economists and other researchers typically use a fixed or random effect estimation to control for unobservable heterogeneity across individuals. Such individual heterogeneity, although substantially reducing the estimated effect of many characteristics, is little understood. This paper shows that personality measures can account for 20% of this heterogeneity and ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
31 (2010), 1, 1-16
| Christopher J. Boyce