1. Figure 6.3. Levels of disability pensions compared to other social benefits and wages
2. SOURCE: STATISTISCHES BUNDESAMT, OWN CALCULATIONS As is to be expected from the demographical development, the development of wages and pensions in scenario 2 is delayed compared with scenario 1;CONTINUOUS LINE: SCENARIO 2
3. own translation). In their coalition talks, SPD and CDU both explicitly expressed the extension of working life as being one of their political targets;See. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,2004