, are highly unpopular. This contribution looks into the role of intrinsic motivation as a driver for pension reform … acceptance. Theoretical reasoning suggests that this driver should be relevant: The choice among different pension reform options … (increasing pension age, increasing contributions, cutting pensions) can be analyzed within the framework of an optimal job …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected pension payments. This reform did not … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using …

-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a … pension levels and raising mandatory pension age. Finally the paper discusses further possible reform measures, including the … option to install a fourth pillar providing income in retirement through working after pension age. -- Pension Financing …

the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of …

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. …

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the … curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to … educational outcome variance explained by predetermined circumstances beyond a student's control. The reform-induced increase in …