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Německá důchodová reforma z roku 2001
HEIDU, Rudolf F.
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the prevailing opinion is that due to the demographic development the pay as you go system needs partial substitution by private pension funds with state subsidies. The retirement behavior virble in current data is mainly influencend by the 1972 reform which made the German pension system the most generous in the Word The German social security contribution rate, in 2003 at 19.5 % of gross income, was projected at the end of the 1980s to exceed 40 percent of gross income at the peak of population ageing if the accustomed replacement rates and the indication of pensions to gross income were maintained. The article describes the situation when indications of financial deficits due to demographic changes are overestimated and describes the problems of private management of suplementary funded private pension funds as a component of Riester reform. Conclusion answers the question of how far do lower income persons participate in the third pillar and what the expected financial results of their participation achieves in order to meet this first pillar pension deficite as an important element in preventing poverty in old age.
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