@article{2014:mika:erwerbsmin,
title = {Erwerbsminderungsrente nach Bezug von ALG II: Auswirkungen der Reformen auf die Versicherungsbiografien},
year = {2014},
note = {The introduction of the reformed means-tested unemployment assistance
(ALG II) increased the numbers of those insured in the public pension
fund from 2005 to 2010. The amount of these contributions was small
and did not lead to a significant increase in future pensions.
However, the possibility of becoming an insured person in the public
pension system enabled the long-term unemployed to apply for a pension
for reduced earning capacity after three years. Particularly in West
Germany, the insurance biographies of the unemployment benefit
recipients display long periods of interruptions at an early stage,
often due to long-term sicknesses. Both in West and East Germany the
number of recipients of unemployment assistance who successfully
applied for a reduced earnings-capacity pension after many years of
unemployment is remarkably high. Above all, it turns out that only a
small number of those who directly moved from the receipts of
unemployment benefits (ALG II) to the pension system have been
employed during the ten years before entering the pension system. For
that reason, the pension contributions in many cases are low or
extremely low and do not provide sufficient security. This affects men
and women alike.},
journal = {WSI-Mitteilungen},
pages = {277--285},
author = {Mika, Tatjana and Lange, Janine and Stegmann, Michael},
volume = {67},
number = {4}
}