Increasing National Pension Premium Defaulters and Dropouts in Japan

Suzuki Wataru and Yanfei Zhou

Gakushuin Economic Papers, 2010, vol. 47, issue 3, 181-198

Abstract: This paper investigates why so many people are premium payment defaulters or dropouts from the national pension system using household-level data from a Japanese Government Survey. The major results can be summarized as follows: (1)the dropout probability of younger cohorts does not differ significantly from that of older cohorts; (2) the unemployed or jobless, individuals with few financial assets, and people who do not own their homes, i.e., borrowing-constrained individuals, are more likely to drop out from the national pension; and, (3) the probability of dropping out from the national pension system declines abruptly at around the age of 36.

Keywords: intergenerational inequality; liquidity constraint; national pension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D52 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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