Die Studie beschäftigt sich emipirisch zum einen mit den Auswirkungen der Konjunktur - und dabei auch die der derzeitigen Krise - auf die Einnahmen und Ausgaben der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung. Zum anderen werden auch die Rentenreformen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts mit ihren Rückwirkungen...

Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...

As his new term begins, President George W. Bush has been trying to focus his domestic agenda on what he calls the ownership society, a sweeping vision of an America in which more citizens would hold significant assets and be free to make their own choices about providing for their health care...

This study analyses the adjustment of the Finnish earnings-related pension system to very low economic growth. The results show that a permanently lower growth rate of the wage bill would raise only moderately the pension contribution rates in the long term. This is because also the benefits are...