Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts. A microsimulation analysis for Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts. A microsimulation analysis for Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gesetzliche Renten, Beschäftigungsmuster im Wandel und die konhortenspezifischen Auswirkungen von Rentenreformen. Eine Mikrosimulation für Deutschland.
Quelle	Berlin (2010), 48 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 276/2010
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Altersversorgung; Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung; Rentenreform; Lohnhöhe; Privathaushalt; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmarkt; Beschäftigung; Rentenalter; Geschlechtsspezifik
Abstract	"We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed which accounts for cohort effects in individual employment and unemployment and earnings over the lifecycle as well as the differential impact of recent pension reforms. Cohort effects for individuals born between 1937 and 1971 vary greatly by region, gender and education and strongly affect lifecycle wage profiles. The largest effects can be observed for younger cohorts in East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms but due to higher cumulated unemployment. For West German men, the small reduction of average pension levels among younger birth cohorts is mainly driven by the impact of pension reforms, while future pension levels of West German women are increasing or stable due to rising labor market participation of younger birth cohorts." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Sekundäranalyse; empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1984 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2