Pension funds carry implications on citizens wellbeing in their retirement years and countries’ growths, rendering changes to them following natural disasters of great importance. Using administrative data that comprises a 10 percent random sample of the Australian population and a natural experimental design, we investigate the effects of natural disasters on retirement savings in the aftermath...
Dieses Projekt dient der Weiterentwicklung der Open Source Software GETTSIM . GETTSIM ist ein in der Programmiersprache Python geschriebenes Simulationsmodell, welches das Deutsche Steuer – und Transfersystem abbilden kann. Die Software bietet in Forschung sowie Lehre viele verschiedene Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und wird in Kooperation mit dem IZA (Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) sowie weiteren...
This project serves to further develop the open source software GETTSIM. GETTSIM is a simulation model written in the programming language Python, which can depict the German tax and transfer system. The software offers a multitude of applications in research and teaching. It is developed in cooperation with the IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) as well as other German research institutes and...
Während das gesetzliche Rentenrecht eine für alle Versicherten einheitliche Regelaltersgrenze vorsieht, deuten empirische Befunde auf eine ungleiche Verteilung der Lebenserwartung hin. Je nach Einkommenshöhe, beruflicher Stellung, berufsbedingten gesundheitlichen Belastungen oder dem Geschlecht leben die Bürger unterschiedlich lang. Zu vermuten ist, dass deshalb auch die Rentenbezugsdauer der gesetzlich ...
Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age inemployment. An important at-risk group comprises older employees who have worked in demanding jobs formany years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. Tomeasure differences in labor market reactions of employees in low- and high-demand ...
In sequential interactions, both the agent’s intention and the outcome of his choice may influence the principal’s action. While outcomes are typically observable, intentions are more likely to be hidden, leaving potential wiggle room for the principal when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how intentions and outcome affect the principal’s actions ...
Common ownership - when an investor holds shares in two or more companies - has recently attracted significant attention from policy-makers and researchers, studying mainly US firms. European firms, however, are different as top investors with large stakes, like governments, founding families and foundations are much more prevalent. This paper takes a well-known common ownership with micro-economic ...