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The Austrian Pension System: Pensioners' Paradise or a Burden for Future Generations?

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  • Anja Hülsewig
  • Oliver Hülsewig

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The media often presents the pension system in Austria as a model for Germany. Looking more closely at the key figures of the Austrian pension system, however, the sustainability of the system is doubtful, since with an increase in the old-age dependency ratio up to 2060, it can be expected, assuming an unchanged status quo, that pensions will be covered to a decreasing extent by current contributions. In order to secure sustainability, reforms are needed that may lead to a reduction in pension levels, an increase in the retirement age or a rise in pension contributions.

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  • Anja Hülsewig & Oliver Hülsewig, 2017. "The Austrian Pension System: Pensioners' Paradise or a Burden for Future Generations?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 70(07), pages 31-39, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:70:y:2017:i:07:p:31-39
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    JEL classification:

    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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