Many Western countries with an aging population consider reforms of their pay-as-you-go pension systems. In Sweden a new pension system has already been decided and implemented. This paper gives a brief background to the Swedish reforms in the 1990s and explains the structure of the new system.

In this paper, we combine macro and microeconomic approaches to a pension reform. First, we modify an OLG model and estimate macroeconomic effects of a pension systém switch from a pure PAYG to a mixed system. Second, we employ macroeconomic results in a microeconomic simulation in which we...

Als Gastredner bei der diesjährigen Jahresversammlung konnte der Vorsitzende des Sachverständigenrates zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bert Rürup, gewonnen werden. In seinem Festvortrag zum Thema "Nach dem Nachhaltigkeitsgesetz und dem...