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Hartz IV – The German “Word of the Year 2004”and the Country’s Hope to overcomeits Problem of Unemployment

Lohse, Tim - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2005

, was to reduce the lack of jobs and to increase welfare. Facing persistently increasing unemployment rates from then on …

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The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the United States and Germany

Post, Thomas; Gründl, Helmut; Schmit, Joan; Zimmer, Anja - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

Much of the industrialized world is undergoing a significantdemographic shift, placing strain on public pension systems. Policymakers are responding with pension system reforms that put more weight on privately managed retirement funds. One concern with these changes is the effect on individual...

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The Welfare Enhancing Effects of a Selfish Government in the Presence of Uninsurable, Idiosyncratic Risk

Braun, R. Anton; Uhlig, Harald - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

This paper poses the following question: Is it possible to improve welfare by increasing taxes and throwing away the revenues? This paper demonstrates that the answer to this question is yes. We show that there may be welfare gains from taxing capital income even when the additional capital...

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Consumption Comparisons and Happiness:A Calibration Study

Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009

Does it make us unhappier when we compare our consumptionwith that of the Joneses or our own past achievements? This paper tries ananswer by bringing together two disparate literatures: the macro (growth)theory on habit formation and the applied literature related to the Easterlinparadox. Using...

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Optimal Taxes and Transfersunder Partial Information

Homburg, Stefan; Lohse, Tim - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2004

, long-termunemployed on the one hand (who are no more entitled to unemployment insurance)and the disabled on the other hand … suggestedto reduce unemployment benefits below the level of social assistance.[...] …

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Globalisierung und soziale Marktwirtschaft - Eine wirtschaftsethische Perspektive

Pies, Ingo - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2007

Dieser Artikel beleuchtet aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive, wie Globalisierung im öffentlichen Diskurs wahrgenommen wird und wie sie stattdessen wahrgenommen werden müsste, um die mit Globalisierung verbundenen Chancen und Risiken richtig einschätzen zu können. Die Hauptaussagen...

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Skill Specific Unemployment with Imperfect Substitution of Skills

Xie, Runli - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

labor force skill composition. This papertakes a different approach by emphasizing the connection between cyclicalvariations … in skilled and unskilled labor markets. Using a stylized businesscycle model with search frictions in the respective sub …-markets, I find thatimperfect substitution between skilled and unskilled labor creates a channelfor the variations in the sub …

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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination …

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Skill Mismatch in Equilibrium Unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

We analyse the effect of skill mismatch in a search model of equilibrium unemployment with risk-neutral agents … explain the rise in unemployment in Europe relative to the US. This result is due to the endogeneity of job destruction and … stands at odds with previous findings in the literature. We can, however, confirm the fact that unemployment benefits …

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Wirtschaftsethik

Pies, Ingo; von Winning, Alexandra - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2004

Wirtschaftsethik primär behandelten Probleme wie Umweltverschmutzung, Korruption, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Armut nicht lösbar sind, ohne …

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