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| Title: | | Social Security in Germany: A Prey of Political Opportunism?  |
| Authors: | | Potrafke, Niklas |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 677 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines how politicians influenced social security policy in Germany. Using yearly data from the German Pension Insurance from 1957 to 2005, revenues as well as expenditures are analysed in linear regression models, respectively. In accordance with opportunistic political behaviour, revenues from contributions decreased in pre-election years. Most important, pension expenditures increased in election years. Interestingly, the CDU/FDP governments provided higher subsidies to the social security system than the grand coalition and the SPD/GR government. Overall, there is no evidence for the prospect, that left coalitions caused higher intergenerational redistribution than right governments. |
| Subjects: | | social security partisan politics pension system |
| JEL: | | H55 D72 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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