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This project is a review of OECD member countries' pension arrangements for public sector employees. The primary aim of the project is to provide a comparative summary of each country’s public sector pension schemes. The project also seeks to analyse the relationship between public sector pensions (and their reform), and reforms undertaken more generally to the public sector, providing insights into the extent to which public sector pensions may assist or impede the reform process. Third, it addresses how public sector pension schemes deal with breaks of service whether due to illness, parenting, study, training/secondment, the use of part time and casual employees, and the use of independent contractors. These questions address the consequences of trends such as outsourcing, and efforts to increase participation rates to combat the impact of ageing populations. Finally, the project addresses how pension schemes deal with the trend in many OECD member countries towards a need for an increasingly mobile (often internationally mobile) workforce and towards more flexible and individualised careers, to assess whether public sector pensions are consistent with governments’ modernisation programmes and efforts to address ageing.
This project contributes to three of the Public Sector Management and Performance (PSPM) division’s work programmes. First, work underway analysing the moves across the OECD over the last 20 years to “modernise” the public service, and the role of pensions in relation to those moves. Secondly, work underway analysing the impact on the public service of an ageing workforce. Thirdly, the division’s public sector pay and employment survey. This project will complement the OECD’s overall work on pensions.
For more information on the OECD's work on pensions:
Public Sector Pensions and the Challenge of an Ageing Public Service
Pensions at a Glance
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