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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,...
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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...
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The goal of this study is to present an insider view on the pension reforms implemented in Hungary between 1996 and 2009. Both political economy as well as institutional economics will be used as the main approaches to analyse and explain the reform process and some of its effects. The following...
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This article examines recent pension reforms in OECD countries. All countries are facing the challenge of designing both financially and socially sustainable pension policies in a context of weak economic growth, low financial returns and ageing populations. In some cases, countries have been...
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Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...
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This paper discusses two topics which are at the very center of the ongoing political debate on public pension reform. First, we deal with the puzzle that there is a public pension system at all from a purely neoclassical point of view. Second, we address the issue which is considered the...
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In der Oktober-Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels wurden Professoren der Volkswirtschaftslehre zur Zukunft des deutschen Rentensystems befragt. Anlass hierzu war die Forderung von Finanzminister Olaf Scholz, das aktuelle Rentenniveau auch über das Jahr 2025 hinaus auf dem aktuellen Niveau zu...
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Im November 2018 verabschiedete der Bundestag ein Rentenpaket, das Anfang Januar 2019 in Kraft trat und für Vertrauen in die Stabilität der Rente sorgen soll. Festgelegt wurde unter anderem eine »doppelte Haltelinie« – die bis 2025 gelten soll –, für das Rentenniveau einerseits und für...
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Eckart Bomsdorf, Universität zu Köln, skizziert ein Modell, das eine schnellere Anpassung des Rentenwertes Ost an den in den alten Ländern geltenden Rentenwert vorsieht, als den aktuellen Regeln nach zu erwarten ist, und gleichzeitig den Umrechnungswert abschafft, so dass eine vollständige...
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Das Niveau der Rentenauszahlungen sinkt kontinuierlich. Die betriebliche und die geförderte Privatvorsorge reichen nicht aus, um die Versorgungslücke zu füllen. Experten warnen vor einer zunehmenden Armutsgefährdung im Alter. Nach Ansicht von Lars P. Feld, Anabell Kohlmeier und Christoph M....
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