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Pensioners’ Poverty Requires Fundamental Reform

open access: yesWirtschaftsdienst, 2020
The German government seeks to improve the situation of longterm pension contributors with the basic pension (“Grundrente”). However, the basic pension only combats the symptoms rather than addressing the causes of low pensions and old age poverty: the ...
Ernst Niemeier
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Linking Pensions to Life Expectancy: Tackling Conceptual Uncertainty through Bayesian Model Averaging

open access: yesMathematics, 2021
Linking pensions to longevity developments at retirement age has been one of the most common policy responses of pension schemes to aging populations. The introduction of automatic stabilizers is primarily motivated by cost containment objectives, but ...
Jorge M. Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso
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Role of the Pension Protection Fund in financial risk management of UK defined benefit pension sector: a multi-period economic capital study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
With the advent of formal regulatory requirements for rigorous risk-based, or economic, capital quantification for the financial risk management of banking and insurance sectors, regulators and policy-makers are turning their attention to the pension ...
Lauritzen, McNeil, Porteous
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Assessing the impact of macroeconomic variables on pension benefits in Ghana: A case of Social Security and National Insurance Trust

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017
Background: One of the most pressing phases for all economic agents is post-retirement standard of living. Irrespective of the higher returns on pension contribution and varied pension reforms, there are possible factors that can render these pension ...
Grace Ofori-Abebrese   +2 more
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Rational Pension Policies [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
SummaryAim of this keynote is to develop a framework how to approach the design of pension policies as rationally as possible. The first step is to realize and accommodate endogenous adjustments. The second step is to align the root causes of demographic change with corresponding reform steps which include but are not confined by pension reform.
openaire   +3 more sources

The determinants of savings rates in OECD countries: The role of private pensions

open access: yesCentral Bank Review, 2023
The design of pension schemes is crucial in determining savings behavior. The impact of pension schemes on saving rates across countries remains to be an intriguing empirical question considering the complicated nature of the relationship between saving ...
Pınar Fulya Gebeşoğlu   +2 more
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The Sustainability of PAYG Pension Schemes: A Comparative Analysis (1993–2023) [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
The most common policy response to pension account deficit appears to be increasing age of retirement. Many countries with PAYG pension schemes have been experiencing this bitter reality. This paper brings to evidence some parameters of PAYG pension
Jiri ROTSCHEDL   +3 more
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Impact of Income on Life Expectancy: A Challenge for the Pension Policy

open access: yesRisks, 2021
The aim of this paper is to present life expectancy of both genders depending on their income and to determine the impact of a possible regularity on the state pension policy.
Damian Walczak   +2 more
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Complexity in Risks Facing Pension Plans: Nonmarket Financial Risk in the United States and Poland [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Management, 2015
This paper discusses agency, regulatory capture, counterparty and political risks as aspects of the nonmarket financial risks that pension plans and their participants bear, using as examples the United States and Poland.
Adam Samborski, John A. Turner
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Reform narratives and argumentative coupling in German pension policy: constructing the ‘deserving retiree’

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
German pension policy experienced a shift in the early 2000s, when public pensions were cut back, the retirement age raised, and private, publicly subsidized pension provision stipulated. Within a coherent reform narrative, those reforms were grounded on
Sonja Blum
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