Die arbeitgeberfinanzierte betriebliche Altersversorgung war in den letzten 20 Jahren deutlichen Veränderungen unterworfen. Der internationale Trend von der Leistungszusage zur Beitragszusage hat auch in Deutschland stattgefunden. Arbeitgeber haben ihr Versorgungssystem mit dem Ziel der...

In der gesetzlichen und der betrieblichen Altersversorgung existieren unterschiedlichen Finanzierungssysteme: Die Leistungen der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung werden im Umlageverfahren primär von den heute in das System einzahlenden Erwerbstätigen finanziert. Dieses Umlageverfahren im...

Vor allem unter Geringverdienern ist die betriebliche Altersversorgung nur unterdurchschnittlich verbreitet. Mit dem zum 01.01.2018 in Kraft getretenen Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz und insbesondere dem sogenannten BAV-Förderbetrag (§ 100 EStG) versucht der Gesetzgeber daher, diese...

Using a large sample of multinational companies (MNCs), this paper intends to explore whether executives' pension incentives will function as a mechanism of optimal contracting in motivating firm risk management. We find that granting more pension to executives is significantly related to the...

Poland's new Employee Capital Plans (PPK) scheme, which is mandatory for employers, started to be implemented in July 2019. The article looks at the systemic solutions applied in the programme from the perspective of the concept of the simultaneous reconstruction of the retirement pension...

Die arbeitgeberfinanzierte betriebliche Altersversorgung war in den letzten 20 Jahren deutlichen Veränderungen unterworfen. Der internationale Trend von der Leistungszusage zur Beitragszusage hat auch in Deutschland stattgefunden. Arbeitgeber haben ihr Versorgungssystem mit dem Ziel der...

Vor allem unter Geringverdienern ist die betriebliche Altersversorgung nur unterdurchschnittlich verbreitet. Mit dem zum 01.01.2018 in Kraft getretenen Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz und insbesondere dem sogenannten BAV-Förderbetrag (§ 100 EStG) versucht der Gesetzgeber daher, diese...

In der gesetzlichen und der betrieblichen Altersversorgung existieren unterschiedlichen Finanzierungssysteme: Die Leistungen der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung werden im Umlageverfahren primär von den heute in das System einzahlenden Erwerbstätigen finanziert. Dieses Umlageverfahren im...

Mit dem Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz (BRSG) wurde den Tarifvertragsparteien erstmals die Vereinbarung reiner Beitragszusagen ermöglicht. Hierbei sind Mindestleistungen oder Garantien seitens der Versorgungseinrichtungen ausdrücklich nicht erlaubt (Garantieverbot). Es ist jedoch möglich,...

The trend towards eliminating defined benefit (DB) pension plans in favour of defined contribution (DC) plans implies that increasing numbers of pension plan participants will bear the risk that final realized portfolio values may be insufficient to fund desired retirement cash flows. We compare...

Existing evidence on the effectiveness of automatic enrolment is focused on large employers. We compare pension savings of employees working for small employers who were pseudo-randomly affected by automatic enrolment with those working for small employers who, at the same moment in time, were...

This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...

The relationship between retirement plan type and job mobility is more complex than typically considered. While differences in plan features and benefit structure may directly affect employees’ mobility decisions (“incentive effect”), the type of plan offered may also affect the types of...

What is the optimal default contribution rate or default asset allocation in pension plans? Could active decision (i.e., not setting a default and forcing employees to make a decision) be optimal? These questions are studied in a model in which each employee is biased regarding her optimal...

This paper focuses on the development of the funded, occupational pension (OP) system in Denmark. Launched in 1987, as a grand agreement between social partners backed by the government, and as part of the collective wage bargaining process, the Danish OP system differs from the set-up in most...

In Zeiten von wirtschaftlichen Hochphasen wird das Angebot an qualifizierten Mitarbeiter zunehmend knapp und der Wettbewerb um die Ressource Arbeitnehmer immer ausgeprägter. Im Rahmen des Aufsatzes sollte daher die Frage geklärt werden, ob Deferred-Compensation-Modelle einen Ersatz für eine...

CA representative pensioner is considered for the evaluation of some of the cost factors for the career-average-revalued-earnings (CARE) defined benefit scheme of USS (the Universities Superannuation Scheme). Since the promised benefit increases with inflation, the return on the pension...

A recent US Treasury regulation allowed deferred longevity income annuities to be included in pension plan menus as a default payout solution, yet little research has investigated whether more people should convert some of the $15 trillion they hold in employer-based defined contribution plans...

In Zeiten von wirtschaftlichen Hochphasen wird das Angebot an qualifizierten Mitarbeiter zunehmend knapp und der Wettbewerb um die Ressource Arbeitnehmer immer ausgeprägter. Im Rahmen des Aufsatzes sollte daher die Frage geklärt werden, ob Deferred-Compensation-Modelle einen Ersatz für eine...

This paper analyses a model in which employees are biased in their perception of their optimal contribution rates or asset allocations in defined contribution pension plans. The optimal default is characterised as a function of the parameters. It is shown that, for some values of the parameters,...

This paper presents the results of an experiment that is designed to examine how information presentation and complexity impact retirement-savings behavior. The experiment is performed twice, using both a Qualtrics panel of new employees and a sample of business school students. In this...

This paper investigates whether exposure to explanatory diagrams can affect a major financial decision. In a controlled experiment, participants were given pension benefit statements with or without one or two diagrams, before answering incentivised questions that measured recall, comprehension...

This paper investigates the optimal investment strategy for a defined contribution (DC) pension plan during the decumulation phase which is risk-averse and pays close attention to inflation risk. The plan aims to maximize the expected constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility from the...

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...

Nudge is about affecting behavior in a certain way through small changes to the choice architecture. However, a nudge may also affect behaviors that the architect did not intend. We show that such spillover effects exist in a highly policy relevant context where the use of nudge is widespread;...

Using a series of laboratory experiments, this paper studies the effect of tax misperceptions on retirement savings and examines whether informational tax nudges and changing the form of the tax subsidy promote tax-efficient savings behavior. We find that deferred pension taxation results in...