Mandatory pension systems can have a negative impact on individual savings and labor supply decisions. In particular, defined benefit pension schemes that are not actuarially fair, can create incentives for early retirement, and therefore, reduce labor supply and the stock of human capital....

Mandatory pension systems can have a negative impact on individual savings and labor supply decisions. In particular, defined benefit pension schemes that are not actuarially fair, can create incentives for early retirement, and therefore, reduce labor supply and the stock of human capital....

Since 1991, the Russian system of federal intergovernmental transfers has moved from equalizing to counter-equalizing, both in the case of regional revenue equalization and in the case of regional personal income equalization. This change happened despite increasing revenue and income...

All over the world, pension systems have financing difficulties that need to be addressed. There are three ways of dealing with pension systems problems - finance it to a greater extent from general revenues, rationalize the system, or a full-fledged reform. After several years of political and...

This report looks at pension reform recently undertaken in Poland, but draws conclusions with wider applicability. It examines the motivation for reform, the struggle of progressively minded experts and politicians to advance the reform agenda, the architecture of the new system, and issues...

Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Wirksamkeit arbeitsmarkpolitischer Maßnahmen und der Einfluß wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Sozialprogramme auf den Arbeitsmarkt in postkommunistischen Übergangsgesellschaften. Der Verfasser diskutiert vor dem Hintergrund von Erfahrungen in den OECD-Staaten...