Turkey is currently introducing a comprehensive pension reform, which aims at unifying the currently disperse system and reducing the significant - and rapidly growing – social security deficit from 4.8% of GDP in 2005 to less than 1% of GDP by 2035. The cumulative value of the deficits over...

This article, based on two books (2008, forthcoming), sets out principles for pension design: pension systems have multiple objectives, analysis should consider the pension system as a whole, analysis should be in a second-best context, different systems share risks differently and have...

Im Januar 1957 beschloss der Bundestag eine grundlegende Reform der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung. Durch sie wurde nicht nur das Leistungsniveau deutlich erhöht, sondern vor allem trat an die Stelle einer statischen nun eine dynamische, an die Lohnentwicklung anknüpfende Rentenformel. Renten...