The Reform of the Pension System in Italy
February 1, 1997
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Summary
Italy’s pension system was reformed in August 1995. The new system has various desirable long-run properties and, overall, it represents an improvement over earlier systems. However, it fails to address two longstanding problems: extremely high contribution rates, and a lack of provisions for dealing with the substantial deterioration in demographic ratios expected over the next 30-40 years.
Subject: Aging, Demographic change, Expenditure, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics, Retirement
Keywords: Aging, Amato system, coefficient, contribution rate, Demographic change, dependency ratio, early retirement, Pension spending, pension-to-GDP ratio, Pensions, ratio, Retirement, self-employed worker, transformation coefficient, WP, yield coefficient
Pages:
34
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
018
Series:
Working Paper No. 1997/018
Stock No:
WPIEA0181997
ISBN:
9781451922790
ISSN:
1018-5941
