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01.09.2016 / Sozialpolitik (MEA) EN

The Fallacies in the Pension Debate

Axel-Börsch-Supan, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, and Friedrich Breyer, Professor for economic and social policy at the University of Constance, have discovered that in the current pension debate even experts commit grave fallacies in reasoning. In a guest contribution for the Süddeutsche Zeitung the scientists correct five of the most common mistakes made in the pension debate.

SZ Guest Article (German only)
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