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Linking retirement age to life expectancy – what happens to working lives and income distribution?

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  • Lassila, Jukka
  • Määttänen, Niku
  • Valkonen, Tarmo

Abstract

This study investigates the impact that pension policy measures aiming to extend working lives have on working lives, retirement ages and income distribution, as well as on the fiscal sustainability of the earnings-related pension system and public finances. Our research report is divided into four articles, each addressing various research questions. The first article focuses on the impact of pension reforms on working lives and income distribution. The second article ponders ways in which to link the earliest pensionable age to life expectancy, while the third looks at how this linking affects the size and financing of pensions and the fiscal sustainability of overall public finances. The articles are linked, so that the third utilizes the results of the first two. In the last article, the described reform is compared to reforms in the other Nordic countries and the reform proposals featured there. Next we will present the most important results and conclusions from each article.

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  • Lassila, Jukka & Määttänen, Niku & Valkonen, Tarmo, . "Linking retirement age to life expectancy – what happens to working lives and income distribution?," ETLA B, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, number 260, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:rif:bbooks:260
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    1. Colombino, Ugo & Hernæs, Erik & Locatelli, Marilena & Strøm, Steinar, 2011. "Pension reforms, liquidity constraints and labour supply responses," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(1), pages 53-74, January.
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    1. Mikkel Christoffer Barslund & Marten von Werder, 2016. "Measuring dependency ratios using National Transfer Accounts," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 14(1), pages 155-186.
    2. Elena Jarocinska & Anna Ruzik-Sierdzinska & Theo Nijman & Andres Vork & Niku Määttänen & Robert Gál, 2014. "The impact of living and working longer on pension income in five European countries: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland," CASE Network Studies and Analyses 0476, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
    3. Jukka Lassila & Tarmo Valkonen, 2015. "Longevity Risk and Taxation of Public Pensions," CESifo Working Paper Series 5640, CESifo.
    4. Jukka Lassila & Tarmo Valkonen, 2018. "Longevity, Working Lives, And Public Finances," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 36(3), pages 467-482, July.

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    Keywords

    working lives; longevity; retirement age; fiscal sustainability;
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    JEL classification:

    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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