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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform

Bonin, Holger - 2001

In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their long-term viability. It is shown that the adjustment of the Public Pension Scheme misses the...

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Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Desmet, Raphaël; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2003

The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. Focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...

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Shattered dreams: the effects of changing the pension system late in the game

de Grip, Andries; Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - 2009

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...

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Addressing the legacy costs in an NDC reform: Conceptualization, measurement, financing

Holzmann, Robert; Jousten, Alain - 2010

The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined contribution (NDC) scheme. As the new contribution...

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups

Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...

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