The present paper compares the distributional and risk-sharing consequences of two pension reform proposals in Germany which both aim to improve the sustainability of the current system by introducing demographic variables to the benefit calculation. While the first reform proposes a so-called...

Dokumentiert wird der Austausch über das Riester-Sparen, der auf dem Workshop des DIW Berlin stattfand. Teilnehmer dieser Veranstaltung waren Wissenschaftler sowie Vertreter aus Wirtschaft und Politik. Die Gespräche fanden entlang von Vorträgen statt. Kontrovers diskutiert wurde über die...

Auswertungen auf Basis der Daten der Zulagenstelle für Altersvermögen (ZfA) zeigen einen hohen Anteil der Geringverdiener unter den Riester-Sparern. Dieses Ergebnis kann aber nicht auf die Bevölkerung übertragen werden, da die Daten nur die Riester-Sparer umfassen. Auswertungen auf Basis des...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die allgemeinen und spezifisch staatlichen und verbraucherpolitischen Initiativen, für die das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) im Bereich von Finanzdienstleistungen auf das Riester-Sparen bezogen (mit-)...

Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been...

Korea's National Pension Fund (NPF) is projected to be in deficit by the 2040s and exhausted by the 2050s. Increasing contribution rates may be unaffordable, prompting consideration of structural reforms, particularly shifting from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) system....

Satellite accounts on social protection combine monetary and non-monetary data on social protection interventions. In the EU, the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS) has been developed progressively since the late 1970s. Demand for data on social benefit...

Asia and the Pacific has the most diverse regional pension landscape globally. Yet the region's pension systems are facing common challenges as they attempt to expand coverage, and ensure adequacy and fairness, while maintaining fiscal sustainability. We review the structures and performance of...

Our paper examines the financial preparedness of near-retirement individuals across five countries: the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (developed economies) and the People's Republic of China and India (developing economies). It focuses on four channels of retirement support:...

We explore the importance and nature of elderly couples' labor market interlinkages, and how such linkages shape the response to welfare reforms. To this end, we build a life cycle model with dual-earner households, featuring heterogeneous age gaps, non-separable leisure preferences, and...