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To promote transparency and provide information, the Federal Planning Bureau regularly publishes the methods and results of its works. The publications are organised in different series, such as Outlooks, Working Papers and Planning Papers. Some reports can be consulted here, along with the Short Term Update newsletters that were published until 2015. You can search our publications by theme, publication type, author and year.
This report shows that minimum regulations (minimum pensions and the minimumright per career year) and pension credits diminish pension inequality between men and women. If we assume that there are no minimum regulations, the pension gap would be 37% instead of 31%. If we assume that pension credits are not granted, the gap would be 43% instead of 31%. The pension credit part-time work with maintenance of pension rights, one specific type of pension credit, has a limited impact. Without this pension credit, the pension gap would increase with 0.4 percentage points.
Reports - REP_12936 (nl),
Reports - REP_CEVSCVV2023_12855 (fr), (nl),
The results of this report show that the average pension of women is lower than that of men: in december 2017 the average gross pension of women aged 65 and older was 1469 euros, compared to 1920 euros for men. The gender pension gap thus equals 24%. The fact that this gap is not higher can to an important extent be attributed to the existence of derived rights. Without derived rights the gap would be 50%.
Reports - REP_12783 (fr), (nl),
MIDAS, the dynamic microsimulation model that focuses on the social sustainability of pensions, has undergone a major revision in recent years to improve the validity of the projections. This Working Paper not only reports on this revision, but also describes some important new modules.
Working Papers - Working Paper 02-23 (nl), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG202201 (fr), (mix), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG202101 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG202001 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG201901 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG201801 (fr), (nl),
This Working Paper analyses various alternative population projections. The first approach shows the impact of alternative future development scenarios for the population growth components. The effects of some of these scenarios on the development in social expenditure and the at-risk-of-poverty rate for pensioners are also analysed. The second approach consists in carrying out a sensitivity analysis of the population projection to some model parameters, in particular the observation periods selected to estimate trends.
Working Papers - Working Paper 01-18 (fr),
Other publications - FORVERG201701 (fr), (mix), (nl),
Other publications - FORVERG201601 (fr), (mix), (nl),
Other publications - FORVERG201501 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - FORVERG201401 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - FORVERG201301 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - FORVERG201201 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - OPVERG201201 (fr), (fr), (nl), (nl),
The Federal Planning Bureau has a long tradition in providing long-term projections focused on the evolution of social expenditure within an overall framework of public finance, using the MALTESE system of models. This outlook is based on different scenarios: demographic, socio-economic, macroeconomic and welfare adjustment. The purpose of this publication is to describe the methodology for the construction of the socio-economic and macroeconomic scenarios and to illustrate it by presenting the main results from the 2011 projection for the Annual Report of the Study Group on Ageing.
Working Papers - Working Paper 05-12 (en),
Other publications - OPVERG201101 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - OPVERG201001 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - OPVERG200901 - Report (fr), (nl),
Speeches & presentations - SP090617_01 (fr),
Other publications - OPVERG200802 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - OPVERG200801 - Report (fr), (nl),
Other publications - OPVERG200701 - Report (fr), (nl),
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