System change in statutory pension insurance does not solve the intergenerational distribution conflict
Olaf Fuchs
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 16,
2000
Abstract
Der Mechanismus eines Umlageverfahren wird modelltheoretisch analysiert und mit dem des Kapitaldeckungsverfahrens verglichen. Es wird gezeigt, dass der wesentliche Unterschied des Umlageverfahrens eine Subventionierung der ersten Generationen auf Kosten später geborener Generationen ist. Der Übergang von einem Umlageverfahren zu einem Kapitaldeckungsverfahren kann daher die nachfolgenden Generationen nicht entlasten.
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Pension Reform in Hungary
Peter Gedeon
IWH-Sonderhefte,
No. 5,
2000
Abstract
In Hungary social policy reforms in general and the pension reform in particular followed the introduction of the institutions of market economy with a considerable time lag, if at all. Although it was clear from the outset that the communist welfare state could not be sustained, comprehensive institutional reforms in the pension or health care systems were not introduced in the first six years of the postsocialist transition. This uneasiness to reform the social security systems has to do with the contradicting constraints decision makers have to face in the process of systemic change.
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Reform of joint tasks: How far can the federal and state governments disengage? A contribution to the discussion about the new establishment of the German system of public finance
Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 91,
1999
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The Influence of the German Social Pension Insurance System on Private Savings and on Spatial Income Distribution
Ulrich Blum
Geld, Banken und Versicherungen III,
1985
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