Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to the ranking in the gender pay gap, where Germany has also...

Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

Im Rahmen der Bildungsexpansion hat sich die Bildungsbeteiligung der Frauen aus der Babyboomer- Kohorte deutlich erhöht. Die Frage ist, ob das gestiegene Bildungsniveau vermittelt über die Erwerbs - verläufe der Frauen auch zu höheren Rentenanwartschaften führt. Hinsichtlich dieser Frage...

Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this...

Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a significant impact on pension incomes in NDC countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market...

Im Rahmen der Bildungsexpansion hat sich die Bildungsbeteiligung der Frauen aus der Babyboomer- Kohorte deutlich erhöht. Die Frage ist, ob das gestiegene Bildungsniveau vermittelt über die Erwerbs - verläufe der Frauen auch zu höheren Rentenanwartschaften führt. Hinsichtlich dieser Frage...

Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a significant impact on pension incomes in NDC countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors that determine the gender pension gap in Europe. In particular, we focus on understanding how and which risk factors create the pension gap among the two genders. To extract the risk factors that determine the gender pension in Europe, we...