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Demographic Trends and Pension System in Italy: an Assessment of 1990s Reforms

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  • Emanuele Baldacci
  • Donatella Tuzi

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. In the last decade the Italian pension system underwent many changes. The process has started in 1992 with three major reform laws (passed in 1992, 1995 and 1997), supplemented by many other minor changes. Among the innovations introduced in the pay‐as‐you‐go social security system, the most important one is the more explicit link between pensions and contributions, and pensions and life expectancy at retirement. The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of both the short‐term and the long‐term effects of the social security reforms on pension expenditure. Notwithstanding the slowdown in the growth rate of the pension expenditure/GDP ratio, the measures adopted so far will not be sufficient to eliminate the existing social security deficit in the next decades, particularly under the assumption of moderate economic performance and rapid population ageing. Reducing public pension expenditure requires the completion of the 1995 reform, a more rapid move towards a multi‐pillar pension scheme, and the implementation of the much needed growth‐enhancing structural reforms.

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  • Emanuele Baldacci & Donatella Tuzi, 2003. "Demographic Trends and Pension System in Italy: an Assessment of 1990s Reforms," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 17(s1), pages 209-240, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:labour:v:17:y:2003:i:s1:p:209-240
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9914.17.specialissue.8
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    1. Alina Ștefania CHENIC (CREȚU) & Alin Ioan CREȚU & Laurențiu TEȘCAN, 2018. "A Long Term Analysis of Two Undeniable Realities of the XXI Century - Global Economic Crisis and Demographic Aging," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 19(2), pages 196-212, May.
    2. R. Melis & A. Trudda, 2014. "Mixed pension systems sustainability," Working Paper CRENoS 201413, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.

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