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...

The paper examines social security (public pension) reforms in which the programme is partially shifted from a public unfunded basis to a private, prefunded, basis. It focuses on reforms where individuals have a choice in switching from public funded to private unfunded programmes (as in the...

Mit Ausnahme der Wirtschaftswunderjahre dürfte wohl kaum eine Regierung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu Beginn ihrer Amtszeit bessere Ausgangsbedingungen vorgefunden haben als die seit Dezember 2013 regierende Neuauflage der Großen Koalition. Für die langfristige...