The Inverting Pyramid

Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe and Central Asia

Business & Finance, Economics, Public Finance
Cover of the book The Inverting Pyramid by Anita M. Schwarz, Omar S. Arias, Asta Zviniene, Heinz P. Rudolph, Sebastian Eckardt, Johannes Koettl, Herwig Immervoll, Miglena Abels, World Bank Publications
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Author: Anita M. Schwarz, Omar S. Arias, Asta Zviniene, Heinz P. Rudolph, Sebastian Eckardt, Johannes Koettl, Herwig Immervoll, Miglena Abels ISBN: 9780821399095
Publisher: World Bank Publications Publication: February 21, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Anita M. Schwarz, Omar S. Arias, Asta Zviniene, Heinz P. Rudolph, Sebastian Eckardt, Johannes Koettl, Herwig Immervoll, Miglena Abels
ISBN: 9780821399095
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Publication: February 21, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English
Europe’s pension systems –among the most celebrated features of its social welfare model— face tremendous challenges. With only 11 percent of the world’s population, Europe spends about 60 percent of global outlays on social protection, largely in pensions. In many countries, pension rules have encouraged people to retire sooner, while enjoying longer lives. Payroll taxes on a continuously expanding contributory base have financed these benefits. This model of pension provision is now being severely tested as pension systems reach maturity, while the population is aging and the labor force is starting to shrink. Measures to enable a continued tradition of providing old age security will include • raising retirement ages such that pensions are provided in the last 15 years of life, when work capacity traditionally diminishes • encouraging immigration to help fill the declining work force • rationalizing pension spending, putting priority on preventing old age poverty, and • encouraging savings to help provide the more comfortable retirement that individuals have come to expect. Some measures may be more appropriate in particular countries than others, yet undertaking all of them will likely require less drastic changes in any one of them. The specific choices will need to be discussed and agreed among each country’s own population, and be accompanied by enabling changes in pension policy, tax policy, financial markets policy, and labor policy. The fundamental issue is that, with these changes, the important achievements of European social policy can withstand the demographic onslaught and continue to provide old age security for generations to come.
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Europe’s pension systems –among the most celebrated features of its social welfare model— face tremendous challenges. With only 11 percent of the world’s population, Europe spends about 60 percent of global outlays on social protection, largely in pensions. In many countries, pension rules have encouraged people to retire sooner, while enjoying longer lives. Payroll taxes on a continuously expanding contributory base have financed these benefits. This model of pension provision is now being severely tested as pension systems reach maturity, while the population is aging and the labor force is starting to shrink. Measures to enable a continued tradition of providing old age security will include • raising retirement ages such that pensions are provided in the last 15 years of life, when work capacity traditionally diminishes • encouraging immigration to help fill the declining work force • rationalizing pension spending, putting priority on preventing old age poverty, and • encouraging savings to help provide the more comfortable retirement that individuals have come to expect. Some measures may be more appropriate in particular countries than others, yet undertaking all of them will likely require less drastic changes in any one of them. The specific choices will need to be discussed and agreed among each country’s own population, and be accompanied by enabling changes in pension policy, tax policy, financial markets policy, and labor policy. The fundamental issue is that, with these changes, the important achievements of European social policy can withstand the demographic onslaught and continue to provide old age security for generations to come.

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