Pensions, Purchasing-Power Risk, Inflation and Indexation:

The rapid rise in inflation in 2006-07 has attracted attention - once again - both to how pensions systems should react to changes in prices, and to how they do so in practice. Although inflation is now falling as a result of lower commodity prices and weakening demand, this brings with it the risk...

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1. Verfasser: Whitehouse, Edward (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2009
Schriftenreihe:OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
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Zusammenfassung:The rapid rise in inflation in 2006-07 has attracted attention - once again - both to how pensions systems should react to changes in prices, and to how they do so in practice. Although inflation is now falling as a result of lower commodity prices and weakening demand, this brings with it the risk of deflation - falling prices - which also raises questions as to how pension systems should react. Most OECD countries have a legislated commitment to indexation of pensions in payment. However, the empirical evidence in this paper shows that these rules have frequently been over-ridden. Furthermore, because indexation to price inflation rather than wage inflation is much more common - and wages can be expected to rise more rapidly than prices - the effect of following legislated indexation rules will be to reduce pensioner incomes compared with those of the working-age population. However, indexation to prices is less costly, allowing a larger initial pension than under earnings indexation for a given budget constraint. This paper sets out current, national indexation policies and historical data on how pensions have been adjusted in practice. It examines different indexation policies: to prices, earnings or a mix of the two; the choice of the price index and progressive indexation (where smaller pensions are increased more rapidly than larger)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (40 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/227182142567

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