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This article explores how German pension and retirement policy could be made more sustainable, focusing on selected current options for action rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive overview. Before turning to specific problems and perspectives, the article first discusses key...
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This article examines recent pension reforms in OECD countries. All countries are facing the challenge of designing both financially and socially sustainable pension policies in a context of weak economic growth, low financial returns and ageing populations. In some cases, countries have been...
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rather privileged groups of the insured. These measures endanger the sustainability of the German pension system and will …
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Mit dem Altersvermögens- und Altersvermögensergänzungsgesetz (2001) vollzog sich ein Paradigmenwechsel in der Alterssicherung hin zu einem verstärkt eigenverantwortlichen Aufbau kapitalgedeckter Altersvorsorge. Das Versorgungsniveau im Alter hängt in der Folge zunehmend von dem...
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The shift of paradigm in the German statutory pensions system ("gesetzliche Rentenversicherung") from pension system of …. Falling average payments of the German statutory pensions system and private pension schemes falling short of expectations … (defined contribution). At last securing one’s living standard through the German statutory pensions system is abandoned in …
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The 2014 pension reform has three main components. First disability pensions have been increased by about two earnings … social sustainability of the German public pension system. …
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Thanks to the reform process between 1992 and 2007, Germany was in a very good position to master demographic change. These reforms were farsighted, they stabilised the public pension system and they significantly increased employment, the foundation of every old age provision. The “Pension...
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Demographic change inevitably shifts the balance between contributors and recipients in the pension system. Moreover, in the German pension system benefit levels are closely linked to the current state of economic prosperity. Therefore, in the coming decades stabilisation of old-age security...
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for future generations and which role private capital funded pensions can play. The declining pension level and the …
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Obwohl sich die Zahl der Menschen, die Grundsicherung im Alter beziehen, seit Einführung dieser Transferleistung im Jahr 2003 beinahe verdoppelt hat, Ende 2012 bereits knapp 465 000 Ältere im Durchschnitt mit etwas mehr als 700 Euro pro Monat auskommen mussten und die Dunkelziffer der...
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