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Beitragssenkung und Zuschussrente: Ist das eine nachhaltige Rentenpolitik?
Fehr, Hans; Ruland, Franz; Färber, Gisela; Buntenbach, … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 19, pp. 04-16
Zwei wichtige rentenpolitische Fragen werden aktuell diskutiert und stehen zur Entscheidung an: Soll der Beitragssatz zur gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung gesenkt werden, und sollte eine Zuschussrente zur Verringerung des Altersarmutsrisikos eingeführt werden. Hans Fehr, Universität Würzburg,...
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Should Pensions be Progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - CESifo - 2011
idiosyncratic income, disability and longevity risk as well as endogenous labor supply at the intensive and extensive margin … classes with skill-dependent risk profiles. Starting from a baseline path that reflects a purely earnings related pension …
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Pension reform during the demographic transition
Fehr, Hans - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 1999
the future sustainability of the current unfunded public pension system and motivates the search for reform options. The …
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Pension Reform and Demographic Uncertainty : The Case of Germany
Habermann, Christian; Fehr, Hans - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2003
The present paper compares the distributional and risk-sharing consequences of two pension reform proposals in Germany … which both aim to improve the sustainability of the current system by introducing demographic variables to the benefit … calculation. While the first reform proposes a so-called "sustainability factor" which measures the changes in the dependency …
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A Simulation Model for the Demographic Transition in Germany : Data Requirements, Model Structure and Calibration
Jokisch, Sabine; Halder, Gitte; Fehr, Hans - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2004
All countries in the European Union stand at the fore of a phenomenal demographic transition. Especially Germany will realize an enormous aging of its population. The reasons for this development are twofold: On the one hand, the number of elderly will more than double over the coming decades....
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Social security reforms and early retirement
Fehr, Hans; Sterkeby, Wenche I.; Thøgersen, Øystein - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2000
In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts of the pension systems. These reforms have a flavour of increased efficiency...
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Should pensions be progressive?
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - In: European Economic Review 63 (2013) C, pp. 94-116
generations model with idiosyncratic income, disability and longevity risk as well as endogenous labor supply at the intensive and …
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Generational Policy and Aging in Closed and Open Dynamic General Equilibrium Models
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kallweit, Manuel; … - In: Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
This chapter examines the micro- and macroeconomic effects of generational policies using closed and open general equilibrium dynamic life-cycle models. The models illustrate the broad array of demographic, economic, and policy issues that can be simultaneously incorporated within today’s...
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Optimal Pension Design in General Equlibrium
Fehr, Hans; Uhde, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
The present paper aims to quantify efficiency properties of real world social security systems of various institutional designs in order to identify an optimal pension design. Starting from a benchmark economy without social security, we introduce alternative pension systems and compare the...
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Should pensions be progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!
Kallweit, Manuel; Fehr, Hans; Kindermann, Fabian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
idiosyncratic income, disability and longe\-vi\-ty risk as well as endogenous labor supply at the intensive and extensive margin … classes with skill-dependent risk profiles. Starting from a baseline path that reflects a purely earnings related pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957284