Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92683 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 692
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan's population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan's population is causing Japan's household saving rate to decline and this decline can be expected to continue; third, the pay-as-you-go nature of the public pension system, combined with rapid population aging, created considerable intergenerational inequities and increased the saving rates of cohorts born after 1965, which in turn slowed the decline in Japan's household saving rate; and fourth, the 2004 public pension reform alleviated the intergenerational inequities of Japan's public pension system somewhat but will in the long run exacerbate the downward trend in Japan's household saving rate.
Subjects: 
age structure
aging
household
household saving
intergenerational inequity
Japan
pension reform
pensions
population aging
public pensions
public pension reform
saving
social security
JEL: 
D12
D91
E21
E24
H55
J11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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