In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …, necessary beyond 2025. As the enacted savings rate target is conservative, individual pensions keep retirement income sufficient … even if returns to pension funds are low due to legal restrictions on savings vehicles. …

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze … labor market policies and Social Security institutions. We explain the various pathways to retirement existing in Germany …

Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper surveys some … public deficits in combination with falling private savings. …