Was wäre wenn wir Schweden wären? Ist das Schwedische Rentensystem auf Deutschland übertragbar?

Johannes Rausch ()
Additional contact information
Johannes Rausch: Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Postal: Amalienstr. 33, D-80799 Munich

No 201421, MEA discussion paper series from Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Abstract: Sweden is regularly mentioned as a possible model for a reform of the German Pension Insurance System. However, this is done mostly without paying attention to the differences in the initial demographic situation of both countries. In this study, the consequences of these differences for the design of the pension insurance systems in both countries are analyzed. It becomes apparent that Sweden faces considerably smaller demographic challenges. The contribution rate of the German Statutory Pension Insurance would increase by less than 2.8 percentage points until 2060 with a Swedish population structure. Simultaneously, the gross standard pension level would be 3.4 percentage points higher until 2060. Vice versa, a change to the Swedish NDC system with a constant contribution rate of 20% in Germany would induce a reduction of the average gross pension level that is more than twice as high compared to the reduction under the current system. This is completely attributable to the different assignment of the demographical burden to pensioners and contributors.

JEL-codes: H55 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-31
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://mea.mpisoc.mpg.de/uploads/user_mea_discussionpapers/1602_21-2014.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mea:meawpa:201421

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MEA discussion paper series from Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Amalienstraße 33, 80799 München, Germany.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Henning Frankenberger ().