Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47176 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1997
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 840
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract (Translated): 
There are only few estimates of the returns on contributions to the German public pension System (GPPS). Those that are published ränge between nominal rates of future returns between about 4,5 % and 48 %, indicating that GPPS treats different groups of people differently. The authors develop a methodology of calculating rates of return of GPPS contributions and apply it to a standardised retiree and to the average retiree, both male and female. The outcome is that the present System implies negative real rates of return for future retirees. It is argued that the returns on contributions have nothing to do with investment returns prevailing on the capital market and that the currently discussed plans for reforming the German social-security System will lead to a further deterioration of the whole system.
JEL: 
G23
H55
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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