Throughout the world, population aging is a major challenge that will continue well into the 21st century. While the …-country overlapping generations model and combine it with long-term demographic projections for several world regions over a 50 year … horizon. Our simulations suggest that capital flows from fast-aging industrial countries (such as Germany and Italy) to the …

The aim of this paper is to describe for (West) Germany the historical relationship between health and disability on … childhood environment and early retirement by analyzing the retirement behavior of cohorts born during World War I, a period of … harsh living conditions among the civilian population in Germany. Our data show higher early retirement rates among those …

Riester pensions are voluntary, but heavily subsidized private pension schemes in Germany. They were designed as a …

The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men …

decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …