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Pay-as-you-go pension systems provide insurance against longevity-related old-age poverty and related risks. They are commonly also used as instruments for redistribution. This paper provides several estimates of the insurance and transfer share of the German public pension system. Estimating these shares is important because they are indicative of taxation-related deadweight losses and influence public ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
103 (2000), 3, 505-524
| Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held
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In:
Regina T. Riphahn, Dennis J. Snower, Klaus F. Zimmermann ,
Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
83-102
| Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Peter Schmidt
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In:
Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise ,
Social Security and Retirement around the World (A NBER Conference Report)
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
| Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Reinhold Schnabel
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Missing Minorities (MIMI) is a research project initiated by the European Blood Alliance that aims to develop new strategies to recruit blood donors from minority groups. This paper contributes to this larger project by analyzing data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study 2011 that questioned over 20,000 respondents about their blood donation behavior. Within this sample, the authors identify 1,726 ...
In:
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
26 (2015), 4, 1240-1260
| Silke Boenigk, Marius Mews, Wim de Kort
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This article quantifies the monetary value of key family policy measures in Germany over the life cycle. The analysis is based on a dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated life cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel with a comprehensive tax-benefit model. The results indicate that households in Germany receive family- and marriage-related transfers ...
In:
CESifo Economic Studies
62 (2016), 4, 650-671
| Holger Bonin, Karsten Reuss, Holger Stichnoth
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This note derives analytical transition probabilities following a shock to the deterministic component of the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the post-estimation distribution of the error component, identified by use of a utility maximization interpretation of observed choices.
In:
Economics Letters
90 (2006), 1, 102-107
| Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
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In:
Regina T. Riphahn, Dennis J. Snower, Klaus F. Zimmermann ,
Employment Policy in Transition. The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market
Berlin et al.: Springer
8-30
| Holger Bonin, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In this paper we study the effect of television exposure on fertility. We exploit a natural experiment that took place in Germany after WWII. For topographical reasons, Western TV programs, which promoted one/no child families, could not be received in certain parts of East Germany. Using an IV approach, we find robust evidence that watching West German TV results in lower fertility. This conclusion ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 752)
| Peter Bönisch, Walter Hyll
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Individuals’ preferences in transition regions are still shaped by the former communist system. We test this ‘Communism legacy’ hypothesis by examining the impact of acculturation in a communist regime on social network participation and, as a consequence, on preferences for spatial mobility. We focus on the paradigmatic case of East Germany where mobility intentions seem to be substantially weaker ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 334)
| Peter Bönisch, Lutz Schneider
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2011,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 1160)
| Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen