Die Studie beschäftigt sich emipirisch zum einen mit den Auswirkungen der Konjunktur - und dabei auch die der derzeitigen Krise - auf die Einnahmen und Ausgaben der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung. Zum anderen werden auch die Rentenreformen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts mit ihren Rückwirkungen...

In 1998, the left-of-center government of Hungary carved out a second pillar mandatory private pension system from the original mono-pillar public system. Participation in the mixed system was optional for those who were already working, but mandatory for new entrants to the workforce. About 50...

Der demographische Wandel stellt die deutsche Rentenpolitik vor große Herausforderungen. Mit dem Renten­eintritt der Babyboomer-Generation werden immer mehr Rentenempfänger immer weniger Beitragszahlern gegenüberstehen. Um die Lasten gleichmäßiger auf die verschiedenen Generationen zu...

Using three major UK pension reforms as natural experiments we investigate the relationship between pension saving and discretionary private savings. Unlike most differences-in -differences approaches which rely on average differences between the control and the treatment group, we use economic...

This paper investigates how parametric reform in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a tax benefit link affects retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime-age workers in the presence of a tax benefit link,...

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of intense Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth,...

Like in many other OECD countries, the population will age rapidly in Germany during the next decades. This undermines the future sustainability of the current unfunded public pension system and motivates the search for reform options. The present paper aimes to evaluate some currently discussed...