After 1989, Hungary inherited a pension system characterised by an unfair and impenetrable mix of social insurance and social assistance. Widespread public dissatisfaction and the near drift into a financial crisis in the mid 1990s cleared the path for the first paradigmatic multipillar reform...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Problem der Alterssicherung vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung. Zunächst wird auf die Bedeutung der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV) und Möglichkeiten ihrer Stabilisierung hingewiesen. Um eine lebensstandardsichernde und auskömmliche...

First considered, at a point in time, is how cross-country differences in the mix of income sources are related to three measures of economic well-being. Poverty, defined as 50 percent of mean-adjusted household income; relative adjusted disposable income of aged households with heads over 55...