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Pensions at a Glance 2011
Retirement-income Systems in OECD and G20 Countries
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- Foreword
- Table of Contents
- Editorial – Three Solutions to the Pensions Paradox
- ISO Country Codes
- Executive Summary
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Part I. Policy Issues: Pensions,Retirement and Life Expectancy
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Chapter 1. Pensionable Age and Life Expectancy, 1950-2050
- + 1.1. Defining “pensionable age”
- + 1.2. Trends in pensionable ages over a century
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1.3. Expected duration of retirement: Life expectancy at pensionable age
- Figure 1.3. Life expectancy at age 60 and 65 by sex, OECD average, 1960-2050
- Table 1.3. Life expectancy after pensionable age in the OECD, 1958-2050, men
- Table 1.4. Life expectancy after pensionable age in the OECD, 1958-2050, women
- Figure 1.4. Life expectancy at pensionable age in OECD countries, men, 1950-2050
- Figure 1.5. Life expectancy at pensionable age in OECD countries, women, 1950-2050
- + 1.4. Conclusions and policy implications
- Notes
- References
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Chapter 2. Trends in Retirement and in Working at Older Ages
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Chapter 3. Pensions Incentives to Retire
- + 3.1. Measuring pension incentives to retire
- 3.2. Incentives matter
- + 3.3. Changes in pension wealth from working longer
- + 3.4. Individual earnings and changes in pension wealth
- + 3.5. The role of taxes: Changes in net pension wealth from working longer
- + 3.6. Adding a dimension to the analysis: Levels of pension wealth
- + 3.7. Summary of the results for age 60-64
- 3.8. Policy implications
- Notes
- References
- + Chapter 4. Helping Older Workers Find and Retain Jobs
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Chapter 5. Linking Pensions to Life Expectancy
- + Box 5.1. How population projections for the United Kingdom have changed over time
- + 5.1. Life expectancy and recent pension reforms
- + 5.2. How uncertain is life expectancy?
- 5.3. Two benchmark pension plans
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5.4. Pension entitlements and uncertain life expectancy
- Figure 5.2. Pension entitlements under different life-expectancy scenarios: Man with average earnings
- Figure 5.3. Pension entitlements under different life-expectancy scenarios: Man with average earnings
- Figure 5.4. Pension entitlements under different life-expectancy scenarios: Man on average earnings
- + 5.5. An indicator of automatic life-expectancy links in pension systems
- + 5.6. The impact of taxes
- + 5.7. The impact of individual earnings
- + 5.8. Living longer, working longer?
- 5.9. Conclusions and policy implications
- Notes
- References
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Chapter 1. Pensionable Age and Life Expectancy, 1950-2050
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Part II. Pension-policy Indicators
- + Chapter 1. Design of Pension Systems
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Chapter 2. Pension Entitlements
- + Methodology and assumptions
- + Gross pension replacement rates
- + Gross pension replacement rates: Public and private schemes
- + Tax treatment of pensions and pensioners
- + Net pension replacement rates
- + Net pension replacement rates: Public and private schemes
- + Pension replacement rates: Couples
- + Investment risk and private pensions
- + Gross pension wealth
- + Net pension wealth
- + Progressivity of pension benefit formulae
- + Pension-earnings link
- + Weighted averages: Pension levels and pension wealth
- + Retirement-income package
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Chapter 3. Incomes and Poverty of Older People
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Chapter 4. Finances of Retirement-income Systems
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Chapter 5. Demographic and Economic Context
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Chapter 6. Private Pensions and Public Pension Reserves
- + Coverage of private pensions
- + Institutional structure of private pension plans
- + The pension gap
- + Assets in pension funds and public pension reserve funds
- + Asset allocation of pension funds and public pension reserve funds
- + Investment performance of pension funds and public pension reserve funds
- + Pension fund operating costs and fees
- + DB funding ratios
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Part III. Country Profiles
- Guide to the Country Profiles
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Australia
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Austria
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Belgium
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Canada
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Chile
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Czech Republic
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Denmark
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Estonia
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Greece
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Hungary
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Iceland
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Ireland
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Israel
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Italy
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Japan
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Korea
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Luxembourg
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Mexico
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Netherlands
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New Zealand
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Norway
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Poland
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Portugal
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Slovak Republic
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Slovenia
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Spain
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Turkey
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Argentina
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China
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India
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Russian Federation
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Saudi Arabia
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South Africa
The theme of this fourth edition of Pensions at a Glance is pensions, retirement and life expectancy. Many countries have increased pension ages in the face of population ageing and longer lives. Some have introduced an automatic link between pensions and life expectancy. Improvements to the incentives to work rather than retire are also a common part of recent pension-reform packages. However, ensuring that there are enough jobs for older workers remains a challenge.
An in-depth look at these important policy issues is provided by five special chapters on: pension ages, retirement behaviour, pension incentives to retire, the demand for older workers and linking pensions to life expectancy. This edition updates information on the key features of pension provision in OECD countries and provides projections of retirement income for today’s workers. It offers an expanded range of 34 indicators, covering the design of national retirement-income provision, pension entitlements, incomes of older people, the finances of pension systems, the demographic and economic context in which pension systems operate and private pensions.
More countries are analysed than in previous editions, including four new members of the OECD: Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia. Where possible, data are also provided for the other major economies in the G20: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. Along with data on the European Union’s 27 member states, this brings to 43 the number of economies covered in the report.
About Pensions at a Glance...
“An extraordinarily useful and careful compilation of pension information for a wide-range of countries, presented in a common format and following a thoughtful structure. The authors have brought cross-national pension comparisons to a new level, and they are to be commended for their intensive efforts. [This] represents some of the smartest comparative work out there, by people intimately familiar with the nuances – and complexities – of comparative pension work.”
- Olivia Mitchell, Director of the Boettner Centre for Pensions and
Retirement Research, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Publication year : 2011
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