Deutschland und Österreich sind von einem relativ ähnlichen Startpunkt aus in verschiedene rentenpolitische Richtungen aufgebrochen. Während Österreich aber weiterhin die traditionelle umlagefinanzierte öffentliche Rentenversicherung ins Zentrum der Alterssicherungspolitik stellt, erhielt...

Australia's retirees are living longer, saving more and becoming increasingly self-reliant. Superannuation is moving from supplementing the age pension to substituting it for an increasing proportion of retirees, with only 42% of over-65s on a full age pension. This is forecast to decrease as...

In the course of the ongoing debate regarding the critique of the German Riester pension the Swedish premium pension has often been referred to as a role model regarding potential amendments and reforms. The Swedish pension reform of 1998 has led ti a reorganization towards a stratified scheme,...

In the past decade, policymakers have increasingly used behaviourally informed policies, including “nudges,” to produce desirable social outcomes. But do people actually endorse those policies? This study reports on nationally representative surveys in five countries (Belgium, Denmark,...

Deutschland und Österreich sind von einem relativ ähnlichen Startpunkt aus in verschiedene rentenpolitische Richtungen aufgebrochen. Während Österreich aber weiterhin die traditionelle umlagefinanzierte öffentliche Rentenversicherung ins Zentrum der Alterssicherungspolitik stellt, erhielt...

We show that changes in choice architecture have a large effect on student loan decisions while we do not find significant effects of sizeable interest rate changes. We evaluate the effect of two polices implemented in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Education: (1) the requirement that all...