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Income and longevity revisited: Do high-earning women live longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

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The German Retirement Benefit Formula: Drawbacks and Alternatives

Kifmann, Mathias; Breyer, Friedrich - 2003

Wir diskutieren eine Reihe von Problemen der Rentenformel in der deutschen gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV). Wir …

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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …

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Neue Rentenformel: mehr Gerechtigkeit und weniger Altersarmut

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 5, pp. 82-86

Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung ist nach dem Prinzip der Teilhabe-Äquivalenz aufgebaut. Dies soll bewirken, dass die …

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Längere Rentenbezugsdauer der Hochverdiener berücksichtigen: Acht Fragen an Friedrich Breyer

Wittenberg, Erich; Breyer, Friedrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 5, pp. 83

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Gesetzliche Rente: bedeutet Teilhabeäquivalenz Verteilungsneutralität?ein weiterer Irrtum

Breyer, Friedrich - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 2, pp. 117-119

Ein Grundprinzip der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung in Deutschland ist das der 'Teilhabeäquivalenz', das die …A basic principle of statutory retirement insurance in Germany is the proportionality between earnings and retirement …

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Incentives to retire later : a solution to the social security crisis?

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - 2001

As one possible solution to the well-known financing crisis of unfunded social security systems, an increase in the retirement age is a popular option. To induce workers to retire later, it has been proposed to strengthen the link between retirement age and benefit level. The present paper is...

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On the fairness of early retirement provisions

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - 2007

Declining fertility and increasing longevity have rendered public pension systems in many OECD countries unsustainable and have triggered substantial reforms of these systems. One of the officially declared reform objectives is to raise the average retirement age. Crucial parameters for this...

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Sharing demographic risk: who is afraid of the baby bust?

Ludwig, Alexander; Reiter, Michael - 2008

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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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

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