social security incentives on retirement behavior in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands …

This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have … pension and labor market reform. While there is no shortage of reform proposals to address population aging, most of those … focused on pension and labor market reform, little is known about behavioral reactions to such reforms …

The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German …

Germany still has a very generous public pay-as-you-go pension system. It is characterized by early effective …, have induced a reform process that began in 1992 and is still ongoing. This process is the topic of this paper. It has two … describes the three staged reform process that will convert the exemplary and monolithic Bismarckian public insurance system …

. This paper examines the impact of various reform options on the actual retirement choices of older workers. The paper … reform options discussed by the German Social Security Reform Commission installed in 2002, the so called R?rup Commission …'. Our simulations show that the early-retirement pension adjustment factors introduced by the 1992 pension reform will, in …