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The capacity of public pension for sufficient retirement income in the OECD European Countries
Introduction
There are six types of sources of retirement income, namely work, social benefits, state pension, occupational pension, personal investments such as owned housing and personal pensions including donations and inheritance from family (Delsen and Reday, 1996). In addition, the public pension and workplace pension are considered the two largest predominant components. In this regard, this paper mainly focuses on the retirement income from Pay- As- You- Go (PAYG) financed public pension especially in 18 OECD European countries. Based on OECD pension indicators data set, there are three case attributes in this paper including
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Secondly, Haynes (2011) notices that the retirement incomes in Scandianvian countries are significantly different from other OECD nations as a result of the emergent protection for wome’s pension replacement rate, besides, the calculation of pensions relative to previous earnings has been changed in serval European countries (Arcanjo, 2011; Peeters et al., 2014). Thirdly, the income inequality among the elderly has a negative correlation with the retirement income (Brown and Prus, 2006; Dewilde, 2012). In this sense, the paper intends investigate these three logically causal conditions related to the capacity of pubilc pension for protecting sufficient retirement.
Critical realism
Given that this paper looks at a social scientific question, in addition, the social world is an open system influenced by multiple interactions, methods for complex systems are different from the experiments in a closed laboratory condition (Cilliers, 2000; Archer et al.,2013). According to Sayer (2000), unlike the traditional positivist approach, critical realists call for either conceptual or historical perspective to explore the outcome, thus, the causation of critical realism could be much more complex than one of positivism. More specifically, it is noticeable that in complex systems, the same causal
The worker at the age of 60 or 70 and some politicians who can worker until their eighties, the age up to 60 years are the age for the worker to pension from their work because the old ones should have problem in health and the decrease of performance. The worker of the age of 80 mostly work as politicion that enjoying power well, because they are not need to work harder, there are a lot of labor and guardian that can help their work, some politicians used their glory to handle their job without work. The old ones should not be encouraged to remain in paid employment.
6. What was “Project Wagonwheel”? Who were the major participants in the controversy? What sides of the issue did each represent? What was the final result?
A review on pensions may postpone the retirement until citizens are in their 70’s in the UK. The review is most likely to affect those under the age of 55. The review, would needto follow current legislation, and “ ‘make sure that the state pension is sustainable and affordable for future generations.’ ”. The question of if the state pension system will go hand and hand with a rising life expectancy rate in the long run. The review will also take in consideration that should the retirement age still increase of life expectancy slows. The pension age currently in the UK is 67 as of 2008 for both male and female citizens. Pensions minister Baroness Roz Altmann states that “ ‘ It’s not just about raising it [state pension age],
“A common contribution is essential for the maintenance of the public forces and for the cost of administration. This should be equitably distributed among all the citizens in proportion to their means” . This illustrates that all the estates should pay taxes, not just the third
The Central States Pension Fund is faced a serious problem, because of the financial crisis, they can not pay for the retirees pension as much as in the past, which means the Fund don't have enough money to pay all of it. There are two choice they can make: One, if the Fund continues to pay for retirement pension at current rate, the project of company will out of money and end in 2025. And if this happen, the Fund would not be able to pay the pension for retirees and that would impact 407,000 retirees. The another one choice is the Fund cuts approximately 23% pension, that would have 50% percent of chance can let the company remain operation for 30 years. Fortunately, that would not influence the future retirees' pension, but would have a negatively impact of current retirees.
4 Statistics Canada has utilized a computer model for the purpose of gaining retirement readiness information from households. This model calculates the net replacement ratio, which is further compared with disposable income once the person has reached retirement, as well as preretirement. The replacement ratios for each household 's income is broken down, with a 75% rate being considered tolerable and low. The ideal rate, however, is above at least 95%. The small percentage of Canadians who have a readiness score that is under 75% are generally employees with a spotty employment record, or those who have not yet lived in Canada long enough for a full Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefit. Therefore, increasing the overall amount of household savings is going to do a lot more damage than good. This is because having savings now reduces all disposable income for the years that are spent working, while additional income for retirement that is generated will reduce the future GIS entitlement. In fact, the
For an extended period, state and local policymakers and labor unions ignored as the growing public pension obligations became an increasingly fiscal burden. The pension problem was enormous and associated with irresponsible financial practices connected to defined benefit pension plans (Thompson, 1980). Following this, the state of California and its local government have a problem of unfunded public pension liabilities that was estimated to be around $583 billion. Because of this, as Lu and Otto (2003) claim, several cities in the state have had a difficult duty of balancing budgets in a balanced way to the public employees and taxpayers, while continuing to provide public services to the
When regarding the enlarged population of contribution payers, the expected increase in contribution rates will be smaller as well with corresponding estimates of 1.85% in 2025 compared to 2.33% in the status quo scenario. In addition, Lauterbach, Luengen, Stollenwerk, Gerber, and Klever-Deichert (2005) suggest further to include people suffering from dementia and to raise benefits for home care (level I to e704 and level II to e1, 100). In this case, contribution rates of the universal at rate contribution system would have amounted to 1.88% in 2006 and will rise to 2% in
On August 17, 2006 the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the Act) was signed into law. The Pension Protection Act ("PPA") [P.L. 109-280] originated as a single-employer defined benefit pension funding reform bill to strengthen the DB pension system. However, it is best known for the number of provisions to enhance 401(k) and 403(k) plans, especially the auto enrollment feature. Among other noteworthy provisions are those intended to remove legal obstacles to, and create new incentives for, automatic enrollment 401(k) and 403(b) plans. It represents one of the most comprehensive pension reform legislation since ERISA was enacted in 1974. The Act has lead to many companies changing the way their plans are designed and administered, amend plan documents, increase plan funding, and make additional plan disclosures in regulatory filings and to plan participants. The Act made many sweeping changes but for the sake of brevity, only the automatic enrollment plan made by employers on the behalf of its employees is addressed in this report as to the rationale behind the passage of the PPA. Even though the provisions generally apply both to 401(k) and 403(b) plans, for explanatory purposes all references will refer only to 401(k) plans.
The first step is to separate what one believes from that one knows, and to separate what is from what must be. (Hinchey, 5) By doing this, one is able to begin to deconstruct the assumptions about the system in which we operate, which allows the individual to see the system as custom instead of irrefutable law. The next step in critical theory is
Critical theory, on the other hand, as propounded by Robert Cox is a rejoinder to Neo-realism. According to Mark Rupert, Neo-Realism “only describes patterns in the operation of power among States without inquiring as to the social relations through which that power is produced.” Critical theory assumes that power is not given in the form of accumulated material capabilities; in fact, it is a product of social processes. Robert Cox adopted a method of “historical structures” in which “state power ceases to be sole explanatory factor and becomes part of what is to be explained”.
According to Ashley Crossman, “Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it (Crossman, 2017).” Critical theories objective is to get to the root of social life and expose the norms that prevents us from a complete understanding of how the world operates (Crossman, 2017). The theory was developed by sociologist at The Frankfort School in Germany, and it emerged
The elderly sources of income include 5 items .The largest part belongs to social security which is 37% .It shows that most of people use insurance and government`s helps .The second source is earning that contains 25% of the income. A common way to get money is having a job. Some guys invest their savings in different fields. These benefits accounts for their assets. The assets comprise 23% of sources. Retirees get their salary each month from insurance or wherever they worked. Pensions apply to13%of the whole .The last part of all is other which absorbs2% of
Household income inequality has increased in a large majority of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The widening gap between the lower middle class, poor households, and especially the retired compared to the rest of society has become a major concern for policy makers and governments. An analysis of the social impact of the 2008 economic crisis by the OECD (2009) showed that pensioners had been largely spared from benefit cuts and sometimes their public pension benefits increased as part of economic stimulus programmes.
Modern governments promise old age security, which ensures that their citizens can fend for themselves during old age. The approaches, however, may vary from society to society. In some like The United Kingdom and Canada, government pensions are distributed to the elderly. In some others such as Singapore, the people are compelled to provide in advance for their old age dependency. Some societies have laws in place to enforce children to take care of elderly parents. For example, in Singapore, elderly parents may file in to the court if their children do not provide for them. However, there are various financial concerns about these methods. In the case of government pensions, the heavy spending of public fund on the old aged may take a toll on other areas of the nation’s development. Thus a method that works in a society may not work in another and sometimes, multiple approaches have to be taken.