German economist proposes formula to increase retirement age according to life expectancy
A member of the German Council of Economic Experts has proposed a formula to split additional years that a person can expect to live between working life and retirement, triggering opposing political reactions. The mechanism, devised by Veronika Grimm, automatically links a person’s retirement age to their life expectancy, meaning that people would work longer. “The formula [to link the retirement age to life expectancy] in the future could be: ’if life expectancy increases by one year, two-thirds of the year would be...
