Dissertation_Paula Aleksandrowicz_12 ... - Jacobs University
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Table 1: Crucial pension and labour market incentives and disincentives in Germany<br />
and Poland<br />
externalisation<br />
(keeping older<br />
workers from the<br />
labour market)<br />
internalisation<br />
(integration of<br />
older workers on<br />
the labour market)<br />
labour<br />
demand<br />
side<br />
labour<br />
supply<br />
side<br />
labour<br />
demand<br />
side<br />
labour<br />
supplyside<br />
Positive incentives<br />
59 rule, pre-retirement (Vorruhestand), early<br />
retirement scheme (Altersteilzeit)<br />
seniority pensions, old-age pensions for the severely<br />
handicapped; pre-retirement benefits, seniority<br />
pensions for women, early retirement pensions for<br />
workers performing work of ´special character´ or<br />
´under special conditions´ (substituted for some groups<br />
of workers with ´bridging pensions´ since 2009)<br />
wage subsidies for firms, exemption from contribution<br />
to unemployment insurance, qualification subsidies,<br />
broader opportunities for fixed-term contracts, 1-Euro<br />
jobs for persons above 58 for 3 years; intervention<br />
work of longer duration (2-4 years) and with partial<br />
refunding of labour costs<br />
wage subsidy when taking up a lower paid job (until<br />
2008), opportunities for combining work and drawing<br />
a partial pension, pension accruals for postponed<br />
retirement, opportunities for part-time employment,<br />
rehabilitation measures; increase of earnings to the<br />
level of minimum wages, opportunities for combining<br />
work and drawing a partial pension, training pensions<br />
for people threatened by permanent work incapacity,<br />
rehabilitation measures<br />
Negative incentives<br />
prohibition of the deployment of incapacitated<br />
workers at certain workplaces (both countries)<br />
implicit tax on continued employment<br />
dismissal protection (loosened in favour of<br />
´top performers´), seniority payment,<br />
downgrading protection, §147a SGB III<br />
(abandoned), anti-discrimination legislation;<br />
anti-discrimination legislation, dismissal<br />
protection prior to retirement (extended from<br />
2 to 4 years)<br />
lowered criterion of what jobs are ´bearable´<br />
for job-seekers, shortened period of receipt of<br />
the earnings-related unemployment benefit;<br />
restrictive rules for granting disability<br />
pensions; increase of retirement ages, pension<br />
deductions in case of early retirement;<br />
restrictive rules for granting disability<br />
pensions and for pre-retirement benefits,<br />
dismantling of early retirement pensions for<br />
women and for younger workers from certain<br />
professions; new pension system which<br />
honours longer contribution periods (phasing<br />
in)<br />
Source: original idea adapted from Offe/Hinrichs (1984: 81-82); own additions, updating and extension to<br />
Poland (text with grey background).<br />
The institutional framework of employment and retirement is filtered at the workplace<br />
level (Elster 1979: 1<strong>12</strong>-117) and exerts an impact on the individual worker (Fig. 2).<br />
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