Pension Age Increase: Positive Effects and the Possible Risks

Повышение пенсионного возраста: позитивные эффекты и вероятные риски

Gorlin, Yuriy M. (Горлин, Юрий М.) (), Lyashok, Victor Yu. (Ляшок, Виктор Ю.) () and Tatyana Maleva
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Gorlin, Yuriy M. (Горлин, Юрий М.): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Lyashok, Victor Yu. (Ляшок, Виктор Ю.): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2018, vol. 1, 148-179

Abstract: In this paper, we explain why it is necessary to reform the pension system in Russia and, in particular, to increase the pension age. Moreover, we emphasize the positive consequences of such a reform, focus on potential risks and analyze measures for their prevention, as well as state counter-arguments to the most common objections. It is shown that due to demographic processes, the growth of informal employment and the reduction of average tenure, the number of pensioners is increasing while the population of donors of the pension system is declining. Under such conditions, the maintenance of the existing level of pensions will require significant additional costs. Raising the general retirement age as one of the measures for optimization of the pension system will help not only to maintain the level of pensions, but also to prevent the expansion of transfer payments from the federal budget and the increase of tax burden on the population and business. The reform will improve the situation on the labor market and stimulate the process of active longevity. It is also shown that the arguments against the increase of the retirement age are not well-founded. Several scenarios of the retirement age increase are considered, and the choice of the most favorable way for the Russian economy is made: up to 63 years for men and 60 years for women at the pace of 3 months per year in the first four years of the reform, then 6 months per year. The most crucial tasks which should be solved in order to maximize the social and economic output of the reform are also considered in the paper.

Keywords: pension age; life expectancy; elderly employment; ageing; pension reform. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J14 J21 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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