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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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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012

This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

.g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … Hamamatsu, whereas it is negative in San Diego. The paper draws on data from ethnographic studies in Japan and California to …

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The gender wage gap in four countries

Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006

comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …

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High performance work practices and employee voice: A comparison of Japanese and Korean workers

Bae, Kiu-sik; Chuma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-bae; … - 2010

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

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Distortions, endogenous managerial skills and productivity differences

Bhattacharya, Dhritiman; Guner, Nezih; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011

are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan. …

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Long-term employment and job security over the last twenty-five years: A comparative study of Japan and the US

Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - 2011

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

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