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In the course of the ongoing debate regarding the critique of the German Riester pension the Swedish premium pension has often been referred to as a role model regarding potential amendments and reforms. The Swedish pension reform of 1998 has led ti a reorganization towards a stratified scheme,...
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We model the optimal reaction of a public PAYG pension system to demographic shocks. We compare the ex-ante first best and second best solution of a Ramsey planner with full commitment to the outcome under simple third best rules that mimic the pension systems observed in the real world. The...
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Pensioners receive pension payments as well as health insurance and nursing insurance benefits. But pensioners are also contributors to the health and nursing insurance. So the pensioners fund part of the expenditures they cause by themselves. This study takes a closer look at the different...
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Notional defined contribution (NDC) systems have strongly been being debated in the worldwide pension literature in the past years. This paper deals with the feasibility of such NDC systems. The focus is on the German case, where the recent 2004 pension reform introduced a so-called...
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Germany in 2007, which gradually will increase the statutory retirement age (SRA) from 65 to 67 years. Using the SAVE survey … longer in the labour force although it does not seem to completely succeed in keeping women longer in the labour force …: especially among the younger cohorts, whose SRA will be 67 years, women are still more likely than men to plan an early …
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gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung hinterlassen. Diese treten aufgrund der Rentenanpassungsformel mit 1 bis 2 Jahren Verzögerung ein …
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automobile insurance in Germany, the largest such market in Europe. We present and compare a variety of statistical testing …
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declining public pensions levels due to reforms made necessary by demographic change. In 2001, Germany introduced the Riester …
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Testing for asymmetric informations has become very important in recent years in order to test theoretical predictions and to outline new directions for research. In this paper we analyse accident insurance, which has not been analysed before in the literature, but covers one of the most...
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. We investigate this issue in Germany, where workers have the legal right to an occupational pension since 2001, but many … Germany has not resolved the problem of workers' ignorance of their access to occupational pensions. Only about half the …
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