The paper starts by outlining various links between family activities and social security as well as main arguments for family policy and its design in particular when realised by social security schemes. In the second part, the situation in Germany is presented as a case study illustrating...

Zuwanderung aus Ländern von außerhalb Europas oder außerhalb der Europäischen Union steht vielfach auf der politischen Tagesordnung: entweder, um (qualifizierte) Arbeitskräfte anzuwerben oder aber angesichts eines nicht erwünschten Zustroms von Migranten. Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst...

A paradigm shift in pension policy decided by the German red-green coalition government will affect the level and structure of pension benefits as well as the mix of old-age security arrangements remarkably. The paper starts with a brief outline of the pension schemes as they were designed...