Der Bericht der Regierungskommission für die Nachhaltigkeit in der Finanzierung der Sozialen Sicherungssysteme ("Rürup-Kommission") stellt zwei Modelle zur Finanzierung der Krankenversicherung gegenüber: die sog. Bürgerversicherung und das Modell der pauschalen Gesundheitsprämien mit...

Rentenversicherungsbeiträgen einen ökonomisch plausiblen Verfahrenswechsel vor. Dabei folgen die im Einzelnen vorgesehene nachgelagerte Besteuerung zukünftiger Renten und die geplanten Übergangsregelungen vor allem dem Postulat der Gleichmäßigkeit der Besteuerung der Altersvorsorge. Das...

This highly accessible book illustrates how policy makers can address and nurture the effects of growing ethnic diversity in European labor markets.

"On the basis of broad empirical data, the paper examines the longer-term development and the level of integration into the labour market of resident foreigners, and, as a preliminary stage of this integration, the participation of their children and grandchildren, most of whom were born here,...

"On the basis of broad empirical data, the paper examines the longer-term development and the level of integration into the labour market of resident foreigners, and, as a preliminary stage of this integration, the participation of their children and grandchildren, most of whom were born here,...

Angesichts der aus der absehbaren Bevölkerungsentwicklung resultierenden Arbeitsmarkt-„ Erfordernisse" auf der einen Seite und der EU-Erweiterung mit Freizügigkeit von Kapital und Arbeit auf der anderen wird in Deutschland verstärkt über eine Zuwanderungssteuerung diskutiert. Wie könnte...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

This article investigates the determinants of temporary migration and the destination choices of migrants from a geopolitically important region in eastern Europe that borders Russia and the enlarged EU. We present empirical evidence from a novel survey simultaneously conducted in Armenia,...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...