Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................5
2. Family activities and social security....................................................................................6
3. Basic economic arguments for family policy and basic decisions in designing family
policy 8
4. Transfers to families from public budgets and by social insurance in Germany....................10
5. The present debate in Germany on improving the conditions for families in social
insurance.......................................................................................................................14
5.1 Raising children as a contribution in kind in pension insurance?.................................14
5.2 Reducing the contribution burden of families - instruments and effects.....................17
5.3 Financing of family policy and human capital formation............................................21
6. References .................................................................................................................... 22