8-June-2009
English
This paper explores how uncertainty over investment returns affects pension systems. The scale of investment risk is measured in this paper using historical data on returns on equities and bonds in major OECD economies over the past quarter century.
8-June-2009
English
This paper explores how uncertainty over investment returns affects individuals’ retirement incomes and government budgets. The paper uses the OECD pension models to explore the implications of a range of possible outcomes for investment returns.
10-April-2009
English
The paper describes Chile’s pension reform of 1980, which replaced the existing pay-as-you-go public pension programs by a new funded pension program managed by private companies (the “AFP´s”)...
10-April-2009
English
This paper reviews three key aspects of pension schemes available to self-employed workers: coverage, contributions and benefits. In each part, analyses are undertaken not just by describing the rules governing these schemes ...
20-mars-2009
Français
Quel a été l’impact de la crise sur les pensions ? Qui est touché ? Que peut-on faire ?
4-February-2009
English
The rapid rise in inflation in 2006-07 has attracted attention – once again – both to how pensions systems should react to changes in prices, and to how they do so in practice...
30-janvier-2009
Français
Les responsables publics sont confrontés au défi visant à apporter des réponses à court terme à la crise sans perdre de vue les réformes structurelles indispensables pour asseoir les systèmes de pension et de santé compte tenu du vieillissement démographique.
7-janvier-2009
Français
De nombreux pays asiatiques devront réformer leurs systèmes de pension pour assurer aux travailleurs d’aujourd’hui des revenus pérennes et suffisants au moment de la retraite : telle est la conclusion d’un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.
7-November-2008
English
The current generation of workers can expect lower pension benefits in retirement than the current generation of pensioners. Private, voluntary pension savings will therefore play a greater role in providing for old age. This paper calculates the size of the “pension gap”.
27-February-2007
English
This summary study looks at existing Korean family, health and pension policies from an international perspective and considers them in view of the emerging policy challenges in Korea. It was presented at a policy forum on Low fertility and Ageing Society, in September 2006 in Seoul.