Political Determinants of Evolution and Reform of the German Public Pension Plan

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The paper discusses the evolution and reform of the German public pension plan in respect to its history, theoretical approaches to explain the choice and evolution of pension plans and takes current issues in account in order to evaluate the suggestions made and to show what political determinants influence future reform. Part 1 of this paper will give a short review of the history of the German public pension plan between the late 19th century and today. Part 2 will show how decisions made in the past could be explained and will use political approaches to explain the choice and evolution of pension schemes and pension reform. Part 3 of this paper will then consider the current problems faced by the pension system and will discuss different proposals made. It will consider the current situation of the German public pension plan and will use political determinants in order to examine how the future reform of the public pension fund in Germany could develop. A small critique will be given at the end.

About the author

Dr. phil. Nicole Petrick (Petrick-Felber), M.Sc., hat Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Higher School of Economics Moskau und der ESCP Europe Paris studiert. Sie hat einen Abschluss als Master of Science in Economics and Management Sciences der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und einen Doktor der Philosophie in Neuerer und Neuester Geschichte der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

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