Pension Prefunding, Ageing, and Demographic Uncertainty

Jukka Lassila () and Tarmo Valkonen

International Tax and Public Finance, 2001, vol. 8, issue 4, 573-593

Abstract: Pension prefunding can be used to smooth contribution rates in economies where ageing will increase pension expenditure. But how extensive should prefunding be in a defined benefit pension system when there is considerable uncertainty concerning future mortality, fertility, and migration? We study the prefunding rules in the Finnish earnings-related pension system with an OLG simulation model. The results show that increasing the degree of prefunding could yield a more even intergenerational outcome and make future generations' position better, but it is quite possible to overshoot and harm current generations too much. Making the degree of prefunding fertility-dependent appears to be a useful alternative. With declining fertility, current large cohorts would pay modestly increased contributions. The accumulated funds, however, will be huge in relation to the wage bills of smaller future cohorts. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

Keywords: pensions; partial prefunding; ageing; demographic uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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