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Adequacy, fairness and sustainability of pay-as-you-go-pension-systems: defined benefit versus defined contribution

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  • Jennifer Alonso-García
  • María del Carmen Boado-Penas
  • Pierre Devolder

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There are three main challenges facing pay-as-you-go public pension systems. First, pension systems need to provide an adequate income for pensioners in the retirement phase. Second, participants wish a fair level of benefits in relation to the contributions paid. Last but not least, the pension system needs to be financially sustainable in the long run. In this paper, we jointly analyse the adequacy, fairness and sustainability of both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes. Finally, risk sharing mechanisms, that involve changes in the key variables of the system, are designed to restore the financial sustainability while we study their consequences on the adequacy and fairness of the system.

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  • Jennifer Alonso-García & María del Carmen Boado-Penas & Pierre Devolder, 2018. "Adequacy, fairness and sustainability of pay-as-you-go-pension-systems: defined benefit versus defined contribution," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(13), pages 1100-1122, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:24:y:2018:i:13:p:1100-1122
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2017.1399429
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    1. Jesús-Adrián Álvarez & Malene Kallestrup-Lamb & Søren Kjærgaard, 2020. "Linking retirement age to life expectancy does not lessen the demographic implications of unequal lifespans," CREATES Research Papers 2020-17, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    2. Alvarez, Jesús-Adrián & Kallestrup-Lamb, Malene & Kjærgaard, Søren, 2021. "Linking retirement age to life expectancy does not lessen the demographic implications of unequal lifespans," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 363-375.
    3. Mariarosaria Coppola & Maria Russolillo & Rosaria Simone, 2019. "An Indexation Mechanism for Retirement Age: Analysis of the Gender Gap," Risks, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-13, February.
    4. Morsomme, Hélène & Alonso-Garcia, Jennifer & Devolder, Pierre, 2024. "Intergenerational risk sharing in pay-as-you-go pension schemes," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024011, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Diego Wachs & Jorge Onrubia, 2021. "Automatic adjustment mechanisms in public pension reforms: Effects over fiscal sustainability, adequacy, and fairness," Working Papers 2021-05, FEDEA.
    6. Huan Wang & Jianyuan Huang & Shuangyue Sun, 2019. "Assessment of the Financial Sustainability of China’s New Rural Pension Plan: Does the Demographic Policy Reform Matter?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-22, September.
    7. Alonso-García, Jennifer & Devolder, Pierre, 2019. "Continuous time model for notional defined contribution pension schemes: Liquidity and solvency," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 57-76.

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