Europas künftige Rentenkluft

Sven Schreiber and Hubert Beyerle ()

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2014, vol. 94, issue 5, 364-368

Abstract: There is a significant variation in demographic development among European Union (EU) member states. Using the UN’s Population Prospects, we examine how different retirement ages in selected EU countries would lead to comparable relations between the working-age population and pensioners in the future. In the coming decades, it seems that the French would be able to take retirement roughly four years earlier than Germans. There is, therefore, no apparent economic justification for the suggested alignment of retirement ages in accordance with the current German regulation, as is sometimes suggested. Even the EU Commission has prioritised life expectancy in its recommendations for greater sustainability in the pension system, despite the fact that it is an insufficient indicator. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: H55; J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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