Research report 2011 - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Demographic Change, the Individual Life Cycle and Intergenerational Transfers

Authors
Kluge, Fanny Annemarie
Departments
Arbeitsbereich Ökonomische und Soziale Demografie, Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung, Rostock
Summary
How does demographic change impact the life cycle? How will public finances, private transfers or savings rates develop in the future? These questions are of vital importance to future societal arrangements and economic prospects and are thus tackled by research carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. This article shows how the individual economic life cycle is characterized in Germany, how it varies across regions and time, and how it impacts on the sustainability of public finances.

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