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treated equally. This leads to negative incentives to work. The 'bonus pension' is presented as an alternative model which …
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steigern, schlagen die Autoren eine sanfte Rentenreform vor, die 'Nudging'-Elemente nutzt. …
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Ein Grundprinzip der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung in Deutschland ist das der 'Teilhabeäquivalenz', das die …A basic principle of statutory retirement insurance in Germany is the proportionality between earnings and retirement …
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In the German pension debate, reform options are repeatedly proposed that are doomed to failure right from the start as they cannot be legally implemented to begin with. One of these is the inclusion of civil servants in the German state pension scheme. This option, however, is prohibited by the...
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There is discussion in Germany about the future threat of widespread poverty among the elderly. Some argue that the …
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In the summer of 2014 Germany will witness the most substantial expansion of pension expenditures since the 1950s. Yet …, while this reform package was motivated mainly by the dismal prospect of rising old age poverty rates, it does little to …
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of expected pension receipt. Current pension policy in Germany runs counter to this insight, though, leading to even …
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Thanks to the reform process between 1992 and 2007, Germany was in a very good position to master demographic change … Germany exhibits only mediocre performance. A farsightedIf a demographicy strategy wants to be farsighted, its core cannot … Germany's youth. …
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will now be disregarded. However, since these new rules only apply to retirement after July 2014 they fail to fight poverty … extremely costly and unnecessary. Poverty prevention is weak due to a strict income test in the welfare system for the elderly …
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In Germany, recipients of social assistance transfers and of long term unemployment benefits (Arbeitslosengeld II) are … creating negative incentives for the recipients to avoid or to reduce the need for help and by causing needless administrative …
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