Die vorliegende Untersuchung des ifo Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung analysiert vier verschiedene Konzepte für Reformen der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, die im Laufe des Jahres 2002 von verschiedener Seite in die politische Diskussion eingebracht wurden. Ziel ist, auf...

Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen einer Einführung des von der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion vorgeschlagenen "Familiengeldes" auf öffentliche Finanzen, Arbeitsmarkt und die wirtschaftliche Situation von Familien mit Kindern im Vorschulalter, die als Adressaten des Familiengeldes...

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist ein umfassender, internationaler Institutionenvergleich zur Alterssicherung in den Staaten der EU-15, in der Schweiz und in den USA. Erfaßt werden dabei alle drei Säulen typischer Alterssicherungssysteme, d. h. staatliche Alterssicherung, betriebliche...

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...

A key figure which can be applied to measuring inter-generational imbalances involved in existing public pension schemes is given by the "implicit tax" that is levied on each generation's life-time income through participation in these systems. The implicit tax arises from the fact that, quite...