A key figure suited to measuring intergenerational imbalances in unfunded public pension schemes is given by the 'implicit tax rate' imposed on each generation's lifetime income. The implicit tax arises from the fact that, quite generally, pension benefits fall short of actuarial returns to...

A significant ageing trend can be observed in Europe and in other parts of the world. Fertility is decreasing and life expectancy increasing. The impact of migration is growing. The book deals with the implications for financial markets of these demographic trends. Leading economists and...

A broad strand in experimental economics has been devoted to testing the "Hayek hypothesis", which is commonly understood as the proposition that competitive markets conform to basic efficiency postulates. The precise content of this hypothesis, however, often remains fairly vague. We begin by...

The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer workers making pension contributions than there are...

Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business cycle, varies significantly across industrialized countries. In this CESifo volume, leading labor economists analyze the widely diverging patterns of long-term...

Measures of family policy are located in different branches of the law, mainly in tax law, social law and civil law governing alimony. In Germany, the bundle of relevant rules has evolved historically. There are thus numerous linkages between its single elements which are shaped deliberately...

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...

Summary: Child well-being is a highly relevant goal of family policy. Based on individual developmental data from the Socio-oeconomic Panel and an extension study, domain-specific well-being indicators were derived using confirmatory factor analyses for five age groups (Newborns, 2-3, 5-6, 7-8,...

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The capital stock accumulated for each individual can be decomposed into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitized life insurance, only the latter being transferable between...