Das Rentenvermögen, also der Gegenwartswert der Ansprüche an die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung, betriebliche Altersvorsorge und Beamt*innenpensionen, wird typischerweise nicht in die Berechnung von Nettovermögen einbezogen. Nach Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) stellt das Rentenvermögen mit durchschnittlich 33 Prozent nach dem Immobilienvermögen den zweitwichtigsten Baustein im Vermögensportfolio ...
A European unemployment insurance scheme has gained increased attention as a new and ambitious common fiscal instrument which could be used for temporary cross-country transfers. Part of the national stabilizers composing unemployment insurance schemes would be transferred to the central level. Unemployed are then insured by both layers. When a country is hit by an asymmetric shock, it would receive ...
The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies. We use panel data over the period 1989-1998 and estimate a fixed-effects model. In Central Eastern European Countries, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces - this is the central focus of the paper. The most important factor behind both types of saving ...