January 2025
31Jan

Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future

By Charles Yuji Horioka This paper explores the determinants of the level of, and trends over time in, Japan’s household saving rate, with emphasis on the impact of the age structure of the population, and makes projections about future trends therein. The paper finds that Japan’s household saving rate has not always been high either absolutely or relative to other countries and that it was only during the 1961-86 period that it exceeded 15%. Past and future trends in Japan’s...

January 31, 2025
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31Jan

Financial Inclusion Across the United States

By Motohiro Yogo, Andrew Whitten & Natalie Cox We study retirement and bank account participation for the universe of U.S. households with a member aged 50 to 59 in the administrative tax data. ZCTA-level average income, income inequality, and racial composition predict retirement account participation for low-income households, conditional on household income and regional price parities. Income inequality also predicts bank account participation for low-income households. We estimate the causal effect of access to an employer retirement plan on participation. Recent policy proposals...

January 31, 2025
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29Jan

Efectos de los Retiros Anticipados de los Fondos de Pensiones

Por Banco Central de Reserva del Perú Desde el inicio de la crisis sanitaria, se han efectuado diversos programas de retiro anticipado de fondos privados de pensiones que han reducido de manera importante los ahorros previsionales en el Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP), lo que ha constituido un factor de riesgo para la estabilidad financiera. Si bien en el corto plazo los retiros ayudan a suavizar la senda de consumo de los hogares, a largo plazo reducen la cobertura del sistema previsional, poniendo en...

January 29, 2025
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24Jan

Is Care Affordable for Older People?

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development With population ageing, the demand for helping older people with daily activities – so-called long-term care – is set to increase across OECD countries by more than one-third by 2050. Older people with long-term care needs are more likely to be women, 80-years-old and above, live in single households, and have lower incomes than the average. Currently, across OECD countries, publicly funded long-term care systems still leave almost half of older people with...

January 24, 2025
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24Jan

2024 BlackRock Read on Retirement

By BlackRock Retirement. It’s deeply personal. And yet, many of the challenges workers face are common and shared. The relationship someone new to the workforce has with retirement is likely very different than that of someone later in their career. Layer in factors like individual experience and a lack of access to the right tools, opportunities and guidance… and suddenly the path can get complex. But we’re rethinking retirement – because it doesn’t have to be. Get the report here.

January 24, 2025
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24Jan

Influencing Retirement Savings Decisions with Automatic Enrollment and Related Tools

By John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson & Brigitte C. Madrian Historically, retirees in the US relied on the “three-legged stool” of Social Security, defined benefit (DB) pension plans, and personal savings to provide retirement income.1 Beginning in the late 1970s, however, access to DB plans began to fall while access to defined contribution (DC) plans, which require individuals to make their own savings plan contributions and investment decisions during their working years, rose.2 As of December 2023, retirement assets in...

January 24, 2025
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24Jan

The Role of ‘Green’ Investors in Reducing Corporate Carbon Emissions

By National Bureau of Economic Research The researchers categorize public pension funds based on the political affiliation of the leaders who control them. Those under Democratic control, either through governance or board trusteeship, were labeled “green.” Those under Republican control were labeled “non-green.” The researchers assume that Democrats generally favor carbon emission reductions more than Republicans. They study emissions data from 2010–21 for 5,241 facilities across 685 publicly traded companies, along with data on pension fund stock holdings for 24 of...

January 24, 2025
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22Jan

La política pública en pensiones de retiro y la movilidad social

Por Carmen Fernández Reyes & Verónica González Vázquez Existe una estrecha relación entre las pensiones de retiro y la movilidad social a lo largo de la vida productiva de las personas. El proceso de generación del patrimonio pensionario es un reflejo de la igualdad de oportunidades en el mercado laboral, la trayectoria salarial y la intervención de las finanzas públicas. En adición, en el periodo de desacumulación, el pago del retiro mide el éxito de los programas para que los...

January 22, 2025
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22Jan

Vista de Impacto de la Pensión Garantizada Universal en las pensiones actuales y desafíos para el debate previsional en Chile

Por Karol Fernández, Nicolás Rojas & Alejandro Weber Este artículo presenta un cálculo de las tasas de reemplazo de los actuales pensionados por vejez en Chile, tomando en cuenta el monto de la pensión autofinanciada y la pensión total, que incluye los aportes de la Pensión Garantizada Universal (PGU) y el Aporte Previsional Solidario (APS); ello, con el fin de identificar a aquellos grupos de actuales pensionados que han sido mayormente beneficiados con la entrada en vigor de la PGU...

January 22, 2025
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17Jan

Adequacy of future retirement incomes: new evidence for private sector employees

By Jonathan Cribb, Laurence O'Brien & David Sturrock This report takes a fresh look at the prospects for the future of retirement incomes for employees in the UK. Since the Pensions Commission reported around 20 years ago, much has changed in the economic and pensions policy environment. While the introduction of automatic enrolment has been in many respects a great policy success – and the level and coverage of the flat-rate component of the state pension have increased markedly – lower-than-expected...

January 17, 2025
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