Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been...

Mit der wachsenden Anzahl hybrider Selbstständiger verbindet sich aus sozialpolitischer Sicht die Sorge, dass sich bei ihnen Lücken in der Altersvorsorge auftun könnten. Allerdings sind hybride Erwerbsepisoden zumeist von kurzer Dauer, wenngleich sie häufig mehrfach im Erwerbsverlauf...

Germany faces complex challenges in ensuring adequate pensions and the financial sustainability of its pension system amid demographic aging, necessitating comprehensive reforms. The Focus Group on Private Pensions has proposed measures to reform the private Riester pension scheme, advocating,...

Mit dem Gesetz zur Entwicklung und Einführung einer Digitalen Rentenübersicht (kurz Rentenübersichtsgesetz RentÜG) vom 11. Februar 2021 wurden auch in Deutschland die Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen, Betroffenen einen Überblick über die im Alter zu erwartenden Leistungen der...

At present, the question of how national pension or retirement payment systems should be organised is being hotly debated in various countries, and opinions vary widely as to what should be regarded as the optimal design for such systems. It appears to the authors of the present paper that in...

We use recently collected retrospective survey data to estimate the displacement effect of pension wealth on household savings. The third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARELIFE, collects information on the entire job history of the respondent, a feature missing...

A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...

This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...

Norwegian administrative data are used to evaluate the impact of a doubling of the threshold in the retirement earnings test. We find almost no impact on the extensive margin, but a positive effect on the intensive margin. This positive effect is uneven over the earnings distribution, and...