Lebensrealität und Rente

The current pension debate focuses primarily on the issue of generational equity. However, this work addresses problems that do not concern intergenerational but intragenerational distribution processes in the statutory pension system: Given the plurality of forms of employment and lifestyles, the ‘structural conservatism’ of this system, including its normative concepts of the conventional employment relationship and the average family, appears to have become a challenge. Accordingly, this work presents inconsistencies and inequalities that result from this confrontation. At the same time, it offers a benchmark that allows for a normative assessment of the discrepancies it points out, viewed from a Christian social–ethical perspective.