Pension Reforms in Europe: How Far Have We Come and Gone?

This departmental paper takes stock of where European pension systems stand and assesses their key characteristics.
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2021 Issue 016
Publication date: September 2021
ISBN: 9781513593920
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Labor , Public Finance , International - Economics , Public Policy , Demography , Pension and social policy , intergenerational fairness , sustainability , Europe , pension system , IMF library , lifetime benefit , pension adequacy , poverty rate , internal rate of return , Pension spending , Pensions , Aging , Retirement , Pension reform

Summary

In the past few decades, a myriad of reforms in Europe have had a significant impact on the way and extent to which public pensions provide retirement income. This departmental paper takes stock of where European pension systems stand and assesses their key characteristics. We present a novel measure of the balance between lifetime benefits and contributions—the Proportionality Measure—to examine pension systems’ long-term sustainability, fairness, and intergenerational equity