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Rentenpolitik im Angesicht des demografischen Wandels: Problemverschärfung statt Rationalität
Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) Sonderheft, pp. 7-15
Demographic change inevitably shifts the balance between contributors and recipients in the pension system. Moreover, in the German pension system benefit levels are closely linked to the current state of economic prosperity. Therefore, in the coming decades stabilisation of old-age security...
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Redesigning pension systems
Góra, Marek - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
For decades, pension systems were based on the rising revenue generated by an expanding population (demographic dividend). As changes in fertility and longevity created new population structures, however, the dividend disappeared, but pension systems failed to adapt. They are kept solvent by...
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Political economy of pension reforms: Selected general issues and the Polish pension reform case
Góra, Marek - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
The institutional structures of the various types of European welfare state were established around extra revenues called the demographic dividend that used to be easily available throughout the decades of the 20st century. They, however, ceased to be available at the end of that century. The...
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Time to care? The effects of retirement on informal care provision
Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: Journal of Health Economics 73 (2020)
This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address fundamental endogeneity problems by exploiting variation in the German pension system in two complementary ways. We find a significant effect of retirement on informal care...
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Bessere Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege kann Zielkonflikt zwischen Renten- und Pflegepolitik lösen
Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 87 (2020) 46, pp. 853-860
Pflegebedürftige lassen sich bevorzugt von Angehörigen oder FreundInnen zuhause pflegen. Dieser sogenannten informellen Pflege wird auch im Gesetz Vorrang vor formeller, stationärer Pflege eingeräumt. Für viele Angehörige entsteht jedoch ein Zeitkonflikt zwischen der Pflegearbeit und ihrer...
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Von der Grundrente zum Lebenserwartungsfaktor
Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Seuffert, Stefan - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 100 (2020) 10, pp. 774-781
expansive measures and introduces a measure aiming towards increased fiscal sustainability. The two measures consist of the … pension scheme. Both measures increase the sustainability gap by 10% of GDP and will oppose the fundamental principles of the … retirement which could potentially reduce the pension system's sustainability gap by half of the initial magnitude. …
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Life expectancy heterogeneity and pension fairness: An Italian North-South divide
Culotta, Fabrizio - In: Risks 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-22
This work documents a persistent life expectancy heterogeneity by gender and geography in Italy during the period 1995-2019. Based on deviations of life expectancy at age 65, it quantifies the implicit tax/subsidy mechanism triggered when pensions annuities are computed by adopting the same...
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The outlines of a possible pension system funded with human capital
Banyár, József - In: Risks 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-32
The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essence of the problem is that the PAYG system distributes the yield of raising children, i.e., of human capital investment (which is essentially the pension contribution), in such a way that it disregards the...
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Rentenversicherung: Umverteilung ist der Kern!
Wagner, Gert G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 12, pp. 912
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Rentenpaket: Die Bundesregierung auf Irrwegen
Feld, Lars P.; Kohlmeier, Anabell; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 8, pp. 553-559
rather privileged groups of the insured. These measures endanger the sustainability of the German pension system and will …
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