Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance … schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public … perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …

This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do … of the Soviet old-age labor market. I find that Soviet pensioners are responsive to financial incentives. By 1969, after …

This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do … of the Soviet old-age labor market. I find that Soviet pensioners are responsive to financial incentives. By 1969, after …

This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do … of the Soviet old-age labor market. I find that Soviet pensioners are responsive to financial incentives. By 1969, after …

There is discussion in Germany about the future threat of widespread poverty among the elderly. Some argue that the …

reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of … older American workers. For most married couples, the risk of falling into poverty even several years after retirement is … greatest risk of falling into poverty in old age now comes after the death of a spouse, as the survivor faces life after …

Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked … recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as Germany will be ageing very rapidly in the near future. Following a …