Pension reform is one of the biggest challenges facing national governments. How toreform the old pay-as-you-go (PAYG) systems is still under hot debate; one of themost influential funded pension schemes is designed by the World Bank. In thesecond chapter of this paper, we first review the...

This paper studies the impact of variations of a pay-as-you-go pension system on welfare in a stochastic overlapping generations model where compulsory public retirement savings coexist with private savings in assets and bonds. It is shown that, for a stationary population, any reduction of...

Once an integral component of company-sponsored compensation schemes in many Western economies, private defined benefit (DB) pensions are in decline. For many, DB schemes (and their related healthcare liabilities, depending on the jurisdiction) have hobbled the financial well being of plan...

China is currently in the process of developing the largest pension system in the world and it is doing this in the context of profound economic reform and demographic transformation. The central government has followed a step-by-step approach to set up a system that is capable of accommodating...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses recent developments in the average effective retirement age in light of the 2011 reform and the different forms of retirement. The analysis shows, first, that the effective retirement age has tended to increase in recent years as a result of the net...