Over the next four decades, increasing old-age dependency ratios exert an enormous upward pressure on welfare spending in most developed countries. As this is mainly due to existing unfunded public pension schemes, many countries have embarked on far-reaching reforms in this area, strengthening...

Eine einflussreiche Meinung unter deutschen Ökonomen besagt, dass es mehrere Wege gibt, »versicherungsmathematisch korrekte« Rentenabschläge bei vorzeitigem Rentenzugang zu definieren – je nach dabei verfolgten Zielen. Die relativ geringen Abschläge nach dem geltenden Recht der GRV seien...

Current plans to permanently fix the level of benefits provided by the German Statutory Pension Scheme are at odds with the reality of demographic ageing and the requirements for sustainable pension policies. Instead, the causes of the ageing process ought to be addressed through poten-tially...

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than in many other European countries. The paper explains this by institutional factors that affect labor supply, labor demand and matching, i.e. labor market regulation, human...