-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this unpaid care women might enter retirement earlier, rather than prolonging … other countries as well as in the United States. -- elder care ; long-term care ; gender differences ; retirement policies …

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …

relationships, meaning that households, for example, react to changes in the statutory pension system, such as the retirement age or …. One approach to parametrically reform the pension system would be linking (indexing) the retirement age systematically to … contributions and taxes. Moreover, with a rising retirement age and the associated longer periods of work, pension entitlements …

linear labor income tax and earnings-dependent pensions, which approximate the current German pension system, the theory …

component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by … securing their standard of living, accounting for just around five percent of their total retirement income. If the Riester …

only for the sustainability but also for the adequacy of social security schemes, including pensions. Our paper aims at … assessing the consequences of the Ageing Working Group projections on the adequacy of social security pensions. We use a … rate, the redistributive impact of pensions and the different risks of poverty. Pension beneficiaries are compared to wage …