The pension reforms of the years 2000 until 2007 were supposed to attenuate the foreseeable effects of demographic change on the pension system. This is why the retirement age was raised, the pension level was lowered and a so-called sustainability factor ("Nachhaltigkeitsfaktor") was introduced...

Mit den Rentenreformen der Jahre 2000 bis 2007 sollten die voraussehbaren Wirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf das Rentensystem bewältigt werden. Daher wurden das Rentenalter heraufgesetzt, das Rentenniveau gesenkt und ein so genannter Nachhaltigkeitsfaktor in die Rentenformel eingefügt....

In the following study we examine the level of pensions dependent on the different pension systems in the private and public sector and dependent on the level of income in Germany for the year 2012. Regarding the percentage of the net wage to the net income before retirement the differences...

The study provides an empirical analysis of the effects of cyclical fluctuations - including those of the current economic crisis - on revenues and expenditures of the German public pay-as-you-go pension system on the one hand. On the other hand the pension reforms of the most recent decade are...