Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201295 
Title (translated): 
Adjusting the Earnings-related Pension System to Low Growth
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Report No. 13
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
Abstract (Translated): 
This study analyses the adjustment of the Finnish earnings-related pension system to very low economic growth. The results show that a permanently lower growth rate of the wage bill would raise only moderately the pension contribution rates in the long term. This is because also the benefits are partially linked to wages. But if the rate of return on the pension fund investments would also go down, the contribution rates would increase significantly. External competitiveness and employment would weaken as well as the position of future generations. The study presents a pension reform that stabilizes the contribution rate by raising the retirement age and cutting pensions. These kind of specific reforms are not, however, optimal due to demographic and economic uncertainty. A better solution would be automatic adjustment rules that are designed to provide accepted redistribution of income between various generations.
Subjects: 
Economic growth
Earnings-related pension system
Intergenerational redistribution
JEL: 
H55
D58
Document Type: 
Research Report

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