Whether pension reforms lead to an improvement in macroeconomic performance is a controversial question. Some countries, which have implemented reforms, claim better economic performance while in others a positive result has yet to be seen. This paper explores two aspects of this issue further:...

The German pension system was the first formal pension system in the world, designed by Bismarck nearly 120 years ago. It has been very successful in providing high and reliable pension levels at reasonable contribution rates. While the generosity of the German pension system is considered a...

Notional defined contribution (NDC) systems have strongly been being debated in the worldwide pension literature in the past years. This paper deals with the feasibility of such NDC systems. The focus is on the German case, where the recent 2004 pension reform introduced a so-called...

Die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung hat die Prognos AG beauftragt, verschiedene Alternativen zur Umfinanzierung der Alterssicherung zu untersuchen. Der Untersuchungsauftrag umfasst insgesamt fünf Finanzierungsvarianten, die ausgehend von einer Referenzrechnung auf der Basis geltenden Rechts jeweils...