This article surveys the literature on selection effects in retirement behavior. More specifically, we consider early retirement schemes with actuarially fair adjustments based on average life expectancy. To this end, we recapitulate the theoretical literature on selection effects and resulting...

This paper focuses on the problems involved in developing cross-country comparisons of the intergenerational stance of fiscal policy. Of course, these comparisons are nowadays based on the method of generational accounting and in particular most of them rely on comparing the total size of...

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Anreizwirkungen des Umlage- und des Kapitaldeckungsverfahrens auf Ersparnisbildung, Arbeitsangebot und intergenerative Transfers in einem mikroökonomisch fundierten, disaggregierten Generationenmodell unter besonderer Berücksichtigung dynamischer...