scholarly journals Sustainability in Public Pension Funds? A Longitudinal Study of the Council on Ethics of the Swedish AP Funds

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Joel Boudin ◽  
Jan Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Economic Rationale

Are public pension funds taking sustainability values into serious consideration? This question is addressed by analyzing annual reports of The Council on Ethics in the Swedish public pension system, which has a clear mission from The Swedish Government to consider sustainability values. The council was established in 2007 and supports four funds with advice. This article studies empirically how the council’s expression of words connected to different values has changed over time as well as how it practically reasons in situations of value conflicts. The quantitative data shows that words indicative of “sustainability values” have considerably increased. As a contrast, the critical discourse analysis shows that the council often reasons in a general, loose way about preferable solutions, while more practical claims for action are largely lacking or are vague in relation to sustainable development. The underlying rationale is very much in line with the discourse of economic rationalism. Thus, the quantitative findings suggest an emerging sustainability discourse, while the qualitative analysis clearly indicates that an economic rationale continues to underpin the council’s practical reasoning. However, it is concluded that this is not a simple case of green washing documents but rather a slow train moving towards green institutional change.

Pension Structure and Employee Turnover: Evidence from a Large Public Pension System

ILR Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 976-1007
Author(s):  
Dan Goldhaber ◽  
Cyrus Grout ◽  
Kristian L. Holden
Keyword(s):  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Public Pension System

Equity of Public Pension System

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Robert Meneu-Gaya ◽  
Borja Encinas-Goenechea ◽  
Inmaculada Domínguez-Fabián
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Public Pension System

Last Lessons Learned from the Swedish Public Pension System

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
María del Carmen Boado-Penas ◽  
Poontavika Naka ◽  
Ole Settergren
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Public Pension System

scholarly journals An actuarial mathematical model for a new pension philosophy. An application to the accountant pension fund

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Attias ◽  
Simona Ciavalini ◽  
Carla Morrone ◽  
Daniela Saitta
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Pension Fund ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Replacement Rate ◽  
Minimum Threshold ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Highly Correlated

AbstractThis paper adapts an actuarial mathematical model, built for the Italian public pension system, based on the law proposal 3035/2009 to the Accountant Pension Fund (CNPADC). The aim is to introduce a new philosophy pension highly correlated with the concept of adequacy for an ambitious social welfare; using the logic of the 3035/2009 proposal, which guarantees a minimum threshold for the replacement rate of the direct pension, this study provides a rigorous actuarial mathematical model that explains a sort of rate of contribution at a tendential equilibrium, in a pay-as-you-go pension system. This model reveals for which parameters it is possible to intervene to maintain the standard of living in retirement.

Die Finanzierungslücke der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung in Deutschland – Eine Simulationsstudie zu Lösungsmöglichkeiten

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Bollacke
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Demographic Factor ◽  
Public Pensions ◽  
Calculation Formula ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Reform Processes

AbstractPopulation aging challenges pay-as-you-go pension systems. Solving the associated funding problem constantly motivates reform processes. In addition to an aging population, specific regulations of the German public pension system lead to an increasing financial burden of national finances. To ensure sustainable funding of pensions, the calculation formula of the German public pension system will be investigated in this paper. It will be shown, that there are two alterable parameters, which are not optimally used regarding the funding of public pensions. Simulations show that a variable demographic factor to calculate public pensions can reduce the financial burden of national finances.

No Country for Old (Poor) Men: Fairness and Public Pensions

2020 ◽  
pp. 147892991988786
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Alfano ◽  
Pietro Maffettone
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Public Pensions ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Actuarial Fairness ◽  
Fairness Concerns ◽  
Redistributive Effect

Public pensions are a ‘social technology’ at the heart of most welfare states. The basic goal pursued by a public pension system is to make sure that individuals do not outlive their savings. An increasing number of states have recently moved to a system that matches individuals’ contributions over their working lives to a specific stream of revenue during their retirement years (i.e. defining contributions rather than benefits). As a result, intragenerational fairness concerns have started to become more relevant. In this article, we shall claim that, irrespective of how one conceptualises the welfare state, most public pension systems violate actuarial fairness and any plausible account of distributive justice, and that they do so for structural reasons. Studying the Italian case, we offer insights on this regressive redistributive effect, based on regional data, and offer an implicit policy solution to obviate this problem.

Public pensions and take-off

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUTOSHI MIYAZAWA
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Pension System ◽  
National Income ◽  
Empirical Finding ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Public Pensions ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Growth Equilibrium

This paper examines the effects of unfunded public pensions on national income, growth rate, and employment in a model à la Lucas (1988) consistent with the empirical finding in Schoeni (1997). Our model shows that a public pension system can lead to a take-off from a low growth trap to a higher growth equilibrium.

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