Fast ein Drittel der Personen, die neu in Altersrente gehen, nutzt derzeit die Möglichkeit eines frühzeitigen Renteneintritts ohne Abschläge nach einer besonders langen Erwerbskarriere. Häufig wird diese Art der – in der breiten Öffentlichkeit als „Rente mit 63“ bekannten – vorgezogenen Altersrente für besonders langjährig Versicherte mit Personen assoziiert, die lange schwer gearbeitet haben. Wie ...
In the coming years, the pension system in Germany will face financial challenges. The insurance within pension system mustalso be strengthened, especially given that the risk of old-age poverty has increased over the years. An effective basic pension thatguarantees a minimum amount and is anchored in the pension system would be an important step in reducing poverty in old age. An effectivebasic pension ...
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment insurance; however, the opposite holds ...
Im Jahr 2021 führte Deutschland nach jahrelanger Debatte die Grundrente ein, ein Rentenzuschlag für Geringverdienende mit langen Versicherungsbiografien, niedrigen Rentenanwartschaften und geringem Einkommen. Die Einführung dieses komplexen Instruments – laut SPD ein „sozialpolitischer Meilenstein“ – dauerte allerdings zwei Jahre. Die Auswirkungen der Grundrente sind bisher kaum erforscht. Erst seit ...
This paper investigates the effects of survivor benefits (SB) on the labour supply of widows. Using richadministrative data on the Dutch population and a reform that considerably restricted eligibility to SB, weidentify the causal effect of SB on labour supply. Using a regression discontinuity design strategy based onthe cohort-based implementation of the reform, we show that labour income after spousal ...
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal caregiving to study short and long-term costs of informal caregiving in Germany. Incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system, we find that in the absence of Germany’s public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and, ...