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Pension Reforms in Germany: Major Topics, Decisions and Developments

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Transformation of Social Security: Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe

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Pension reform is a topic discussed all over the world, in industrialised countries, in developing countries and in former socialist countries. Since the collapse of the economic and political systems of the countries that were “behind the Iron Curtain”, discussions are focused more and more on basic questions of designing pension protection. Especially the public-private mix has become a central topic of debate. In many countries the privatisation of pensions is proposed. In economic journals a shift from pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing to capital funding is the major topic when dealing with pension schemes. However, there are more topics to discuss and instruments to cope with the problems to be solved.

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Schmähl, W. (1999). Pension Reforms in Germany: Major Topics, Decisions and Developments. In: Müller, K., Ryll, A., Wagener, HJ. (eds) Transformation of Social Security: Pensions in Central-Eastern Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58654-5_6

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