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KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving
Law, David; Meehan, Lisa; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2011
KiwiSaver is a voluntary savings scheme aimed at increasing the retirement wealth of a target population. A critical … between KiwiSaver membership and any shortfall or excess in respondents' expected retirement income relative to either the … element shaping the success of KiwiSaver is the extent to which individuals participate in the scheme, given its voluntary …
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Netherlands; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1996
This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252658
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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Keller, Christian; Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
During the transition process, many existing social sector institutions and policies were significantly eroded and their underlying character changed. As a result, they often do not redistribute to the poorest, nor generally serve the role of facilitating economic change. Social sector reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264010
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This Selected Issues paper highlights that the authorities in the Republic of Korea recognize the pension policy challenges ahead, and a first wave of reforms has already been launched. Despite the reforms to date, much remains to be done. Without further reforms, the public pension systems in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768475
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Pension Reform in China; The Need for a New Approach
Dunaway, Steven Vincent; Arora, Vivek B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The rapid aging of China's population over the next few decades makes it important for a new pension system with broad and adequate coverage to be put in place quickly. Pension reforms, first initiated in 1997, have become bogged down in difficulties over dealing with the "legacy costs"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769032
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Governance and Fund Management in the Chinese Pension System
Hu, Yu-Wei; Impavido, Gregorio; Li, Xiaohong - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system and across provinces. This paper describes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540915
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The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies
Clements, Benedict J.; Coady, David; Eich, Frank; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population ages. In emerging market economies, the challenges are often different. Where...
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Macroeconomic Effects of Public Pension Reforms
Pereira, Joana; Karam, Philippe D; Muir, Dirk; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The paper explores the macroeconomic effects of three public pension reforms, namely an increase in retirement age, a … stronger capital accumulation due to higher world savings. An increase in the retirement age reform yields the strongest impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839358
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Equity risk versus retirement adequacy: Asset allocation solutions for KiwiSaver
MacDonald, Kirsten L; Bianchi, Robert J; Drew, Michael E - Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797741
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KiwiSaver and the Accumulation of Net Wealth
Law, David; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2014
The objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which membership of KiwiSaver has been associated with greater … Zealand’s Survey of Family, Income and Employment and Inland Revenue Department administrative data on KiwiSaver membership … various panel regression techniques. Results appear consistent with earlier evaluations of KiwiSaver. Neither approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992357