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Alterssicherung und Sozialpolitik
Im Forschungsbereich „Alterssicherung und Sozialpolitik“ werden die Auswirkungen des Alterungsprozesses auf die Ausgestaltung und die Finanzierbarkeit der Renten-, Kranken- und Pflegeversicherungssysteme erforscht und daraus sozialpolitische Schlussfolgerungen abgeleitet. Konkret geht es darum, die bestehenden sozialen Sicherungssysteme zu analysieren, Reformvorschläge zu beurteilen oder Reformvorschläge auszuarbeiten sowie einen Beitrag zur Politikberatung zu leisten. Die Analysen werden durch Simulationsmodelle unterstützt. Zentral ist hierbei das Rentensimulationsmodell MEA-PENSIM, mit dem die Auswirkungen von Reformmaßnahmen im Altersicherungssystem auf die finanzielle Situation der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung und das Versorgungsniveau der Rentner untersucht werden können.
Laufende Projekte:
- The long shadow to socialism: Puzzling evidence on East-West German differences in financial literacy
- ISSP9: Social Security Reforms and Retirement Incentives in Germany
- ISSP6: Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany
- Does Respondent’s Knowledge on Population Life Expectancy Influence the Accuracy of Subjective Survival Probabilities?
- Individual Survival Expectations and Actual Mortality
- Do You Know How Much Pension You Will Get? - A Field Experiment
- The Impact of a Productivity Slow Down on Pension Systems in Europe
- The Nativity Wealth Gap in Europe: a Matching Approach
- The Costs of Firm Exit and Labour Market Policies: new Evidence from Europe
- The development of the pension gap and German households’ saving behavior
- Financial Incentives and Heterogeneity in Retirement Behavior
- Entitlement Reforms in Europe
- Dangerous Flexibility - Retirement Reforms Reconsidered
- Social Security and Public Insurance
- Lessons from the Historical Reform Process in Germany
- The Social Welfare State during the Demographic Revolution: The Reform Process of the German Pension System
- Retirement decisions in Germany revisited – evidence from an option value model
- Employment after Retirement in Germany
- Consumption Behavior, Annuity Income and Mortality Risk of the Elderly
- The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle and Unretirement
- Financial literacy, confidence, and gender
- International Social Security Project (ISSP)
- Do Smarter Consumers Get Better Advice? An Analytical Framework and Evidence from German Private Pensions
- Riester Pensions and Life Expectancy
- Financial Literacy and Private Pension Provision
- The Pension Simulation Program MEA-PENSIM
Abgeschlossene Projekte:
- Riester Pensions – Taking Stock After 15 Years
- Early Retirement for the Underprivileged? Using the Record-linked SHARE-RV Data to Evaluate the Most Recent German Pension Reform
- Scenarios of a Sustainable Development of the German Public Pension Insurance
- ISSP8: Old-age Labor Force Participation in Germany: What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?
- The Effectiveness of Incentives to Postpone Retirement: Evidence from Italy
- Savings in times of demographic change: Lessons from the German experience
- Pension Benefits Adjustment in Germany – What can be considered the Best Pension Adjustment Formula?
- The German Pension Reform Package 2014: Consequences of the “Mütterrente” and “Rente mit 63”
- Labor and budget effects of actuarially correct pension adjustment factors in the public pension insurance
- Retirement due to Reduced Earning Capacity and Reform Proposals
- Development of the contribution rate in the German Statutory Health Insurance (GKV) and the Social Care Insurance (SPV) – projections and determinants
- What would be if we were Sweden?
- Inclusion of the self-employed persons in the German Pension System
- Comparing the costs of Riester pensions
- Expecting means-tested benefits in the old age: Behavioral differences and misjudgments
- When Money is Tight and Requirements are High: Using Nonprobability Samples in Longitudinal Household Studies.
- Replacement Rates in the Statutory Pension System in Germany
- Migration und die Stabilisierung der Sozialversicherung
- Der Nachhaltigkeitsfaktor und andere Anpassungsoptionen
- Die optimale Höhe der Schwankungsreserve
- Risiken der privaten Vorsorge
- Risikoeinstellung, Ungeduld und Portefeuilleentscheidungen
- Can the Swedish Premium Pension Serve as a Role Model for Germany’s Riester Scheme?
- Market-based freedom of choice, limitations of consumer sovereignty, and pension policy-making — Evidence from behavioral and institutional economics
- Pension Information, Financial Literacy, and Retirement Saving Behavior in Germany
- Individualized Supply of Retirement Planning Information in Sweden
- The Role of Actuarial Reduction Rates in Individual Retirement Planning in Germany
- How financially literate are women? Perspectives on the gender gap
- Who lost the most? Financial Literacy, Cognitive Abilities, and the Financial Crisis
- Instant gratification and self control in an experiment with children and teenagers
- Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning
- Old-Age Poverty in Germany
- Analysis and Assessment of Policy Measures in the German Health and Long-Term Care Insurance Sectors
- Statutory Health Insurance Simulation Model (MEA-GKV-SIM)
- Contribution Determinants in German Statutory Health Insurance and Social Long-Term Care Insurance
- Redistributive Flows in the German Social Insurance System
- Implicit Taxation in the German Social Insurance System
- Correct Actuarial Calculation of Pension Reductions
- Analyzing Public Knowledge about the Riester Subsidy
- Phased retirement through flexible partial pensions
- Raising of the Statutory Retirement Age to 67
News
Neues MEA Discussion Paper
"Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk"
Neues MEA Discussion Paper
"Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs"
Call for Papers: US-European workshop on “Ageing and Health”
Submit your abstracts or full papers until February 5, 2018.
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Econometrics in the Castle: "Machine Learning in Economics and Econometrics"
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