In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their long-term viability. It is shown that the …

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and … retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or … reform. This effect increases as birth dates approach the threshold date. Furthermore, the effects differ in accordance with …

addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined … NDC reform in China. …

contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …