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Income and longevity revisited : do high-earning women live longer?
Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010
years longer than a woman at the 10th percentile. -- Life expectancy and income ; women ; public pensions ; Germany … confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260329
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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty
Breyer, Friedrich (contributor); Hupfeld, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776611
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Incentives to retire later : a solution to the social security crisis?
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001
As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435789
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Die Rentenformel in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung : Nachteile und Alternativen
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2003 - Preliminary version
Wir diskutieren eine Reihe von Problemen der Rentenformel in der deutschen gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV). Wir …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437390
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Why funding is not a solution to the "social security crisis"
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434286
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Is there a "dead-anyway" effect in willingness to pay for risk reduction?
Breyer, Friedrich; Grabka, Markus M. - 2001
satisfaction and exposure to risk of dying. Application of the test using two sets of survey data from Germany and Australia … Deutschland und Australien ergibt keine Bestätigung für den von Pratt und Zeckhauser behaupteten Effekt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434254
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Income redistribution and the political economy of social health insurance : comparing Germany and Switzerland
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
existing evidence from Germany and Switzerland and are used to develop hypotheses on the future development of the systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434277