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A popular proposal for reforming social security is to supplement or replace traditional publicly financed benefits with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better returns than traditional social security. To achieve higher...
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We investigate numerically how indexation of funded pensions for inflation can be differ-entiated across the various groups of fund participants. The pension arrangement is modelledafter the Dutch situation. While the aggregate welfare consequences are small, group-specific consequences are more...
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We analyze expectations of the Dutch population ages 25 and older concerning future generosity of state and occupational pensions, the main pillars of the Dutch pension system. We use rotating panel data with monthly observations from 2006 until 2012 on individuals' subjective expectations...
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tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … than for elderly men and this gender difference is greater in the Netherlands than in Belgium. The paradox of …
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