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The Crisis of Germany's Pension Insurance system and How it Can be Resolved
The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German Council of economic advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Research. It is argued that the German pay-as-you-go-system is efficient in a present value sense but will nevertheless need the support of a funded system to avoid a financial crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen so as to stabilize the sum of this rate and the pay-as-you-go contribution rate, given the time path of pensions as defined in the present system.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 191
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Pension insurance
pay-as-you-go system
savings
Germany
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Sinn, Hans-Werner
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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1999
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sinn, Hans-Werner
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 1999
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