Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been achieved. For ten years, use of the Riester pension plan has been stagnating at around 25 percent of the ...
Peter Haan, Leiter der Abteilung Staat beim DIW Berlin, fasst 20 Jahre nach ihrer Einführung die Entwicklung der Riester-Rente zusammen. Nach einem anfänglichen Boom stagniert die Verbreitung inzwischen bei etwa einem Viertel der Bevölkerung. Vor allem Menschen mit wenig Einkommen schließen nur selten Riester-Verträge ab – dabei sind sie am meisten von Altersarmut bedroht. Ihre wichtigste...
Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525 non-separated mothers drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation ...
