This event is organized in cooperation with WIFO

Debates on the future of our pension system focus primarily on financial sustainability, age limits, and pension levels, while little attention is given to the profound ongoing changes in wage developments and the job market. Careers have become more diverse and often shorter, and career interruptions are increasing. How does this affect the financial viability of our pay-as-you-go pension system? What does it mean for our individual retirement security? And how can we build a sustainable system that ensures fair pensions for everyone?

Keynote:

Christine Mayrhuber, “Challenges in the Austrian old-age provision system”

Markus Knell, “Can income-dependent pension replacement rates ensure fair pensions?”

Discussion:

Christoph Badelt, President of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council, Chair of the Austrian Productivity Board, Full Professor from 1997 to 2019, Rector of WU from 2002 to 2015

Gabriel Felbermayr, Director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Full Professor at WU Vienna

Markus Knell, Economist with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, specializing in macroeconomics, demography, and pension systems

Christine Mayrhuber, Member of the Austrian Long-Term Old-Age Provision Financing Commission (Alterssicherungskommission), Deputy Director and Economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Andrea Weber, Labor Market Economist and Full Professor of Economics at the Central European University, Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association

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