Nachdem die Bundeskanzlerin Mitte dieses Jahres eine Angleichung der Rentenwerte in Ost- und Westdeutschland angeregt hat, greifen zurzeit vor allem Politiker aus Ostdeutschland diesen Vorschlag im Rahmen einer Altersarmutsdebatte auf. Zur Angleichung der Ost-Renten werden im politischen Raum...

This paper analyzes the reform of the pensionable age as an answer to the future financing problems of public pension systems. We use a two-staged model where, first, the government decides the redistribution level of the pension system and, secondly, individuals face a voting process on the...

This paper quantifies the effect of Poland's 1999 pension reform on the inequality of future pension benefits. The reform increases inequality, both in the upper and lower parts of the distribution. The estimates, based on the 2012 Polish Household Budget Survey, show that the Gini coefficient...