Deutschland altert schneller als fast alle Länder dieser Welt und hat weniger Neugeborene in Relation zu seiner Bevölkerung als jedes andere entwickelte Land dieser Erde. Diese Entwicklung hat fatale Folgen für die Funktionsfähigkeit der staatlichen Sozialsysteme, insbesondere für die...

Die Lebenserwartung steigt in Deutschland von Jahr zu Jahr. Dies gilt gleichermaßen für die Lebenserwartung im Renteneintrittsalter, und damit nimmt auch die Rentenbezugszeit zu, ohne dass der Rentenversicherung auf der Einnahmenseite zusätzliche Zahlungen zugutekommen. In der...

Deutschland altert schneller als fast alle Länder dieser Welt und hat weniger Neugeborene in Relation zu seiner Bevölkerung als jedes andere entwickelte Land dieser Erde. Diese Entwicklung hat fatale Folgen für die Funktionsfähigkeit der staatlichen Sozialsysteme, insbesondere für die...

Many countries face the problem of how to reform social security systems to cope with increasing life expectancy. This raises questions concerning both distribution and risk sharing across generations. These issues are addressed within an OLG model with stochastic life expectancy across...

We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...

We compare two policies of increasing British state pension provision: (a) increase the pensionable age of men and women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons for policy makers to give serious consideration to the...

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the retirement age for a group of workers but not for others. By...

When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...

In this paper we analyze the trends in labor force participation and transitions to benefit programs of older workers in relation to health trends as well as recent Social Security reforms. Our preliminary conclusions are pessimistic regarding the effect of health improvements on the labor...