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This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a reform in the German public pension system that allowed individuals with a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 reform, individuals with 45 contribution years could...
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Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...
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We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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unemployment risks on individual wages are analyzed in chapter 2. Building on a portfolio model for the labor market, the effects … unemployment risk is negative. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of the reduction of unemployment benefits in the course of the … German Hartz reforms. For men and women in East and West Germany we find that the reform-induced decrease in unemployment …
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Im Zuge der Erhöhung des regulären Renteneintrittsalters auf 67 wird stärker individualisierten Formen des Altersübergangs – wie der (echten) Altersteilzeit und der im Rahmen der Rentenversicherung verfügbaren Teilrenten – in jüngerer Zeit wieder vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Zwar...
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