Social Security faces a major financing shortfall. One policy option for addressing this shortfall would be to raise the earliest age at which individuals can claim their retirement benefits. A welfare analysis of such a policy change depends critically on how it affects living standards. This...

Social Security faces a major financing shortfall. One policy option for addressing this shortfall would be to raise the earliest age at which individuals can claim their retirement benefits. A welfare analysis of such a policy change depends critically on how it affects living standards. This...

Im Koalitionsvertrag vom 14. März 2018 wird angekündigt, die Leistungen und Beiträge der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung durch eine sogenannte »doppelte Haltelinie« festzuschreiben. Konkret soll das Netto-Standardrentenniveau vor Steuern nicht unter 48% absinken und gleichzeitig der...

Axel Börsch-Supan, Tabea Bucher-Koenen und Johannes Rausch, MEA – Munich Center for the Economics of Aging am Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München, zeigen, dass die Lage der GRV bis 2030, dem Zeithorizont des aktuellen Rentenversicherungsberichts, stabil im Sinne...

Population aging will be a major determinant of long-run economic development in industrial and developing countries. The extent of the demographic changes is dramatic in some countries and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and...

Population aging will be a major determinant of long-run economic development in industrial and developing countries. The extent of the demographic changes is dramatic in some countries and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and...

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...