We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that...

In most industrialized countries, the work and family patterns of the baby boomers characterized by more heterogeneous working careers and less stable family lives set them apart from preceding cohorts. Thus, it is of crucial importance to understand how these different work and family lives are...

[Einleitung ...] In diesem Gutachten geben wir zunächst einen kurzen Überblick zu den wichtigsten Parametern der Garantierente. In Abschnitt 3 erläutern wir das methodische Vorgehen und stellen die Da-tengrundlage des Berichts vor. Abschnitt 4 beschäftigt sich mit dem verwendeten...