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Preparing for policy changes: social security expectations and pension scheme participation
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008This paper discusses the relationship between public and private savings by analysing private pension scheme participation in the presence of such policy uncertainty. It assesses the influence of subjective policy change expectations on voluntary pension scheme participation in the Netherlands.DocumentMicro-pensions in India: critical issues, challenges and strategies for future
WorldGranny, 2007This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions.DocumentPolicies to improve the resiliency of long-term social security financing
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact system finances. It proposes a class of reforms designed to auto-correct for changes in the major demographic factors affecting social security financing.DocumentLarge declines in defined benefit plans are not inevitable: the experience of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Pensions Institute, 2008Looking at the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, this report evaluates the causes of decline in defined pension benefit plans and the move toward defined contribution pension plans.DocumentKiwiSaver: New Zealand’s new subsidized retirement savings plans
Social Security Online, 2007Since 2007 New Zealanders have had a new option for their retirement savings, KiwiSaver, a type of subsidised, defined contribution retirement savings plan offered by private-sector providers.DocumentFinancial literacy: an essential tool for informed consumer choice?
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2008Over the past thirty years, individuals have had to become increasingly responsible for their own financial security following retirement. The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans has meant that workers today have to decide both how much they need to save for retirement and how to allocate pension wealth.DocumentThe housing crash and the retirement prospects of late baby boomers
Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2008Traditionally, Americans envisioned workers’ income in retirement as a three-legged stool involving Social Security, a defined benefit pension and personal savings. In the last two decades, the share of the workforce with defined benefit pensions has fallen sharply so that this no longer is a substantial component of retirement income for most workers.DocumentReforming retirement-income systems: lessons from the recent experiences of OECD countries
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase significantly over the coming decades in response to population ageing.DocumentUnderstanding responses to pension forecasts: qualitative research
UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, 2008This report is the result of a project commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which aimed to enrich understanding of people’s responses to pension forecasts.