We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension …

deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of pension contributions against the …To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are … undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … have lower (higher) expected standards of living in retirement, due to the uncertainty regarding intrahousehold resource … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …

Despite the socio-political importance of occupational pensions since the pension reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, the … background of the increasingly important role of occupational pensions for retirement incomes, the evidence base should be … estimation of future retirement incomes, the starting point of the analyses should be individuals or households. However, since …