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Backing Out of Private Pension Provision - Lessons from Germany
Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2013
Financing pensions in the EU is a challenge. Many EU countries introduced private pensions schemes to compensate declining public pensions levels due to reforms made necessary by demographic change. In 2001, Germany introduced the Riester pension. Ten years after introduction the prevalence rate...
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Is it All About Access? Perceived Access to Occupational Pensions in Germany
Lamla, Bettina - 2013
This paper provides an empirical analysis of what determines access to occupational pensions as perceived by workers. We investigate this issue in Germany, where workers have the legal right to an occupational pension since 2001, but many might lack the incentive or the ability to gather and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071838
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The Savings Behaviour of German Households : First Experiences with State Promoted Private Pensions
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2009
In response to population aging, pay-as-you-go pensions are being reduced in almost all developed countries. In many countries, governments aim to fill the resulting gap with subsidized private pensions. This paper exploits the recent German pension reform to shed new light on the uptake of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157337
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Working Pensioners in Europe - Demographics, Health, Economic Situation and the Role of Pension Systems
Goll, Nicolas - 2020
pensioners in many European countries. The literature on working pensioners choosing a flexible transition into retirement is to … systems in facilitating or hampering flexible retirement. By using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in … länderübergreifenden Blickwinkel. Dieses Papier untersucht mithilfe von Daten des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE …
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Early Determinants of Work Disability in an International Perspective
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017
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Influence of Social Networks on the Effect of Retirement on Cognition
Hanemann, Felizia - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955112
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Dangerous Flexibility – Retirement Reforms Reconsidered
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017
English Abstract: Flexible retirement is supposed to increase labor supply of older workers without touching the third … rail of pension politics, the highly unpopular increase of the retirement age. While this may have intuitive appeal, this … paper shows that it might be wishful thinking. Economic theory tells us that flexible retirement policies can have a zero or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956509
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Working Conditions, Retirement and Health – Longitudinal Evidence from Europe and the US
Hanemann, Felizia - 2017
English Abstract: I provide new evidence on the effect of retirement on health by exploring the panel dimension of … and cognitive health during the transition from work to retirement. I further included harmonized measures of working … conditions to examine the role of the quality of work within the framework of the health effects of retirement. By applying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944786
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Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920104