Die Grundrente, die zum 1. Januar 2021 in Kraft getreten ist, wurde mit dem Anspruch beworben, Altersarmut zu vermeiden und durch ihr kompliziertes Design besonders zielgenau zu sein. Axel Börsch-Supan und Nicolas Goll untersuchen, ob die Grundrente diesen Anspruch auch tatsächlich erfüllt....

English Abstract: Over the past decades, combining pension benefits with work income has been made more accessible for pensioners in many European countries. The literature on working pensioners choosing a flexible transition into retirement is to date relatively sparse. This article adds to the...

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...

English Abstract: Over the past few decades, different reforms have come into force, which aim at keeping older workers in the labor market longer. Broad literature to date has investigated reform effects for the average worker. Evidence on the heterogeneous reform effects on different groups is...

English Abstract: Targeting is an important aim for social policy. Three case studies in this paper reflect typical short-comings in the targeting design of pension reforms. The first case study examines how well work disability and receipt of disability insurance match in Germany. We show that...

English Abstract: As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 had been declining first to considerably rise again afterwards. This paper investigates the role of structural policy changes, in particular reforms of the...

English Abstract: Targeting is an important aim for social policy. Three case studies in this paper reflect typical short-comings in the targeting design of pension reforms. The first case study examines how well work disability and receipt of disability insurance match in Germany. We show that...

German Abstract: 15 Jahre nach der Einführung der Riester-Rente ziehen wir Bilanz und untersuchen, was die Riester-Rente bislang erreicht hat und welche Handlungsoptionen zur Verfügung stehen. Die Riester-Rente ist seit ihrer Einführung auf breite Resonanz gestoßen. So stehen auf der...