Por Upholster y La Tercera El envejecimiento de la población y las demandas por mejores condiciones económicas pusieron el debate previsional al centro de las demandas ciudadanas. La mezcla de jubilaciones bajas y desinformación en cultura previsional generaron un malestar que llevó a la PGU y a tres propuestas de reforma al sistema de pensiones. Lee más en "Decide Chile"
By Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani & Joanna Tyrowicz To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early retirement pathways affecting both sexes. We use German Socio-Economic Panel data for a sample of couples...
By Linda Sandris Larsen, Ulf Nielsson, Mara Nutu & Jesper Rangvid Using rich register data from Denmark, we study whether people save enough to maintain their pre-retirement level of consumption during retirement. We find that 77% of retirees do. This high fraction is driven by mandatory labour market contributions. The 23% of individuals who do not save enough to maintain their pre-retirement level of consumption are less likely to have mandatory pension schemes and do not compensate for the lack...
By Phitawat Poonpolkul, Ponpoje Porapakkarm & Nada Wasi We use an overlapping generations model to study the challenge in developing countries with a large informal sector and aging populations. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system into the calibrated model. Unlike developed countries, workers in developing countries commonly transit from the formal sector to the informal sector, which can be in the early stage of their working life. This...
Por Gabriel Ugarte & Rodrigo Vergara La reforma previsional plantea una cotización adicional del 6%, la que se destinará a un nuevo fondo colec- tivo (FIP). Los aportes se registrarán en cuentas nocionales que financiarán tanto los derechos de pensión según los registros de cada trabajador, como los beneficios intra e intergeneracionales. Dado que con este fondo deberán pagarse los beneficios del seguro social, este entregará una menor rentabilidad a los futuros pensionados en comparación con las cuentas de capitalización...
Por Reyes Luna & Daysi Dayana En México, tanto el ahorro en el esquema pensional, el ahorro nacional y el crecimiento económico representan un tema predominante en el marco de la instrumentación de la política económica, por lo que los objetivos fundamentales deben ser la consecución de un crecimiento económico estable y sostenido en el tiempo, así como el sostenimiento de niveles de ahorro aceptables. Este trabajo examina empíricamente la relación que tiene el ahorro en el sistema de pensiones...
Por Nuria Badenes Plá El presente trabajo explota la información contenida en la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF) del año 2017 primero para describir las diferencias en el ahorro y la inversión existentes entre los hogares regentados por hombres y mujeres, y segundo, para determinar si existe un gap de género en las decisiones financieras en las familias españolas. En particular se analiza si la regencia femenina o masculina, unida a otros determinantes presenta poder explicativo en la capacidad...
By Charles Hsu, Zhiming Ma & Kaitang Zhou This study examines the effect of common institutional ownership on corporate pension funding. We posit that a common owner’s incentive to maximize shareholder value may come at the cost of employee welfare. Consistent with this prediction, we find robust evidence that firms with common ownership demonstrate greater pension underfunding than firms without common ownership. This effect increases with firms’ value-added activities, common owners’ shareholding, duration of ownership, and portfolio size. It decreases...
By Randy Bauslaugh Pension fund administrators have a fiduciary duty to prudently manage financial risks and opportunities when investing plan assets and when managing plan operations that are paid from the pension fund. This includes the financial risks and opportunities associated with climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. But what are the legal dos and don’ts? Plan fiduciaries will always be on solid legal ground if they take ESG information into account for financial purposes – to...
By Franca Glenzer, Pierre-Carl Michaud & Stefan Staubli Many people forgo a higher stream of public pension income by claiming early. We provide both quasi-experimental and survey-experimental evidence that the timing of public pension claiming is relatively inelastic to changes in financial incentives in Canada. Using the survey experiment, we evaluate the effect of two different educational interventions and different ways of framing the incentive to delay claiming. While all three types of interventions induce delays, these interventions have heterogeneous...
