Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States

Autor: Robert Fenge, Georges de Menil, Pierre Pestieau

Leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, including structural reform of pay-as-you-go systems, the political sustainability of pension reforms, and the need for private, funded systems.Demographic realities will soon force develop

Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of student mobility

Autor: Gabrielle Demange, Robert Fenge, Silke Uebelmesser

Publikováno v: International Tax and Public Finance
International Tax and Public Finance, Springer Verlag, 2020, 27 (5), pp.1224-1263. ⟨10.1007/s10797-020-09595-5⟩

In the last years, there has been a shift toward more private financing of higher education in many countries. At the same time, student mobility has substantially increased. This paper analyzes in a two-region model the impact of student mobility on

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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union? Unearthing a principle of efficient federation building

Autor: Robert Fenge, Max Friese

Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance will pool the cost of unemployment; this results in a collective bargaining in the member states, which leads to excessively high wages and

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Should Unemployment Insurance Be Centralized in a State Union?

Autor: Robert Fenge, Max Friese

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3164773

Public pension systems and distortions of intra-EU mobility: the Lodge Test

Autor: Robert Fenge, Jakob Von Weizsäcker

Publikováno v: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. 9:263-275

In this paper, we analyse how national public pension systems can distort intra-EU movements of workers despite the existing totalization/proratization agreement. As a benchmark test, we propose the ‘Lodge Test’ of mobility neutrality: Two identi

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474747208003909