A History of the German Public Pension System: Continuity amid Change provides the first comprehensive institutional history of the German public pension system

The German pension system was the first formal pension system in the world, designed by Bismarck nearly 120 years ago. It has been very successful in providing

The aging society and threatening old-age poverty are two major political topics in Germany for the next decades. Many modern employment biographies consist of

Offers an analysis of the political process involved in the reform of the pension systems in European countries.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The paper discusses