Pension reform is one of the most pressing issues on the current and future agenda of policy and economic research. Georg Hirte develops and uses a uniform framework for analyzing the effects of pension reforms on redistribution and efficiency among the different generations and the political...

China,pension reform, multi-pillar system,implementation. - China is currently in the process of developing the largest pension system in the world and it is doing this in the context of profound economic reform and demographic transformation. The central government has followed a step-by-step...

The main conclusions of the thesis are that pension reform can be welfare improving if losses and benefits are redistributed by the central government. The possibility of welfare improving social security reform comes from a more efficient use of an immobile production factor, such as land....

In einer Volkswirtschaft mit einer stark alternden Bevölkerung bedarf es ergänzender Formen der Finanzierung und Risikoverteilung zur Diversifikation demographischer Risiken. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist, Lösungsalternativen für ein nachhaltiges Altersvorsorgemodell in Transformationsökonomien...