German Pension Reform On Road Towards a Sustainable Multi-Pillar System
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Author / Creator: | Wilke, Christina. |
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Edition: | 1st, New ed. |
Imprint: | Frankfurt a.M. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften [2018], ©2009. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sozialökonomische Schriften 34 |
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Format: | E-Resource Dissertations Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11761713 |
Summary: | 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 great social achievement, negative incentive effects of past reforms in the 1970s and 1980s and population aging are threatening the very core of the system. This has led to fundamental pension reforms since 1992. Based on a detailed simulation model of the German pension system, this book provides a thorough assessment of the system and its reforms. It shows that the latest reforms have put the system back onto a stable path and moved it from the old monolithic towards a multi-pillar system. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
ISBN: | 9783631750490 3631750498 |