"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the …

in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a significant impact on pension incomes in NDC … countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany …

In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …

sense of internal control and for women with a relatively high sense of external control. Last, we provide evidence that …

-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …

administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women who had …