pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … altruism may mediate the relationship between household decision-making and individual contributions to private pension plans … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …

In aging societies, information on how to reform pension systems is essential to policy makers. This study scrutinizes … administrative pension data and a detailed model of the German tax and social security system to estimate a structural dynamic … that similar levels of net public returns achieved by indiscriminating pension cuts are associated with individual welfare …

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit … tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension …

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit … tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension …

This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before … the pension for long-term insured. Employers however had to compensate their employees for the substantially higher costs … option during the implementation phase of the pension reform. …

This paper presents long term projections of the German pension system that are based on a general equilibrium model … relationships, meaning that households, for example, react to changes in the statutory pension system, such as the retirement age or …. One approach to parametrically reform the pension system would be linking (indexing) the retirement age systematically to …

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 microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed …