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Income and longevity revisited : do high-earning women live longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

years longer than a woman at the 10th percentile. -- Life expectancy and income ; women ; public pensions ; Germany … confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …

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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty

Breyer, Friedrich (contributor); Hupfeld, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

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Old Europe ages : can it still prosper?

Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2009

countries. France, Germany, and Italy have large pay-as-you-go pension systems and vulnerable labor markets. At the same time …

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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk

Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This version: March 20, 2014

We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. We argue that interactions between the two risks are important for this question. One is a direct interaction in the form of a countercyclical variance of idiosyncratic...

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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk

Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This Version: July 9, 2014

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Incentives to retire later : a solution to the social security crisis?

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001

As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...

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Die Rentenformel in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung : Nachteile und Alternativen

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2003 - Preliminary version

Wir diskutieren eine Reihe von Problemen der Rentenformel in der deutschen gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV). Wir …

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Sharing Demographic Risk : Who is Afraid of the Baby Bust?

Ludwig, Alexander - 2009

We model the optimal reaction of a public PAYG pension system to demographic shocks. We compare the ex-ante first best and second best solution of a Ramsey planner with full commitment to the outcome under simple third best rules that mimic the pension systems observed in the real world. The...

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Die Herausforderungen jetzt annehmen! : demografischer Wandel, Klimaschutz, Digitalisierung

Feld, Lars P. (contributor); Fuest, Clemens (contributor); … - Stiftung Marktwirtschaft / Kronberger Kreis - 2021

Am 26. September 2021 wurde der 20. Bundestag gewählt. Auf die Abgeordneten und die neue Bundesregierung kommen große Aufgaben zu. Demografie, Klimawandel und Digitalisierung sind drei zentrale Herausforderungen, die es in der neuen Legislaturperiode anzupacken und nachhaltig zu bewältigen...

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Old Europe Ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010

focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have large pay …

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