Soll das Renteneintrittsalter flexibilisiert werden? Die Zweifel überwiegen Eine Anhebung des Renteneintrittsalters haben im Wahlkampf alle Parteien ausgeschlossen. Stattdessen will die Koalition den freundlich klingenden „flexiblen Renteneintritt nach skandinavischem Vorbild“ prüfen. Neben der gewonnenen Freiheit helfe die Flexibilisierung – so der politische Wunsch –, ...
Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age inemployment. An important at-risk group comprises older employees who have worked in demanding jobs formany years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. Tomeasure differences in labor market reactions of employees in low- and high-demand ...
This study contributes to the subjective well-being and retirement literature by quantifying life satisfaction before (4) and after retirement (9+) periods asking: Are retirees more satisfied? Fixed-effects and causal instrumental variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 33 waves) analyze anticipation and adaptation retirement effects of statutory ...
This paper shows that labor demand plays an important role in the labor market reactions to a pension reform in Germany. Employers with a high share of older worker inflow compared with their younger worker inflow, employers in sectors with few investments in research and development, and employers in sectors with a high share of collective bargaining agreements allow their employees to stay employed ...
The aim of the project SOEP-RV is to link data from participants in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey to their individual Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Insurance) records. For all SOEP respondents who give explicit consent to record linkage, SOEP-RV creates a linked dataset that combines the comprehensive multi-topic SOEP data with detailed cross-sectional and longitudinal ...
We develop a comprehensive life-cycle model of elder parent care and work to evaluate options that address pressing conflicts between pension and long-term care (LTC) policies. Many OECD countries react to challenges of demographic change by increasing LTC by family members (informal care) and raising retirement ages. This intensifies conflicts between paid employment and informal care provision....
Die Riester-Rente erreicht ihre wichtigste Zielgruppe nicht. Wenn sie wesentlicher Bestandteil der Altersvorsorge in Deutschland bleiben soll, ist eine umfassende Reform nötig. Ein Gastbeitrag von Johannes Geyer, Markus M. Grabka und Peter Haan vom DIW Berlin. Laut Angaben des sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) besitzen im Jahr 2020 rund 12,9 Millionen Personen einen Riester-Rentenvertrag (siehe ...