Life tables estimation for pension system actuarial projection model with insufficient data: case of Republic of Srpska

Bošnjak Nikolina () and Prorok Vesna ()
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Bošnjak Nikolina: Faculty of Economics of University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prorok Vesna: Faculty of Economics of University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics, 2019, vol. 5, issue 1, 21-32

Abstract: This article provides an upgraded model for actuarial projection of the dependency ratio of the pension fund in the Republic of Srpska. The nonexistence of complete upto-date life tables presents a huge problem of the pension system and life insurance industry modelling in the Republic of Srpska. Therefore, this article tries to encompass the problem by using the life tables of the Republic of Croatia as a starting point for adjustment of age-grouped life tables available for population of the Republic of Srpska. The actuarial projection model for the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of the Republic of Srpska is upgraded by using these adjusted life tables and the best estimate mortality trend for mortality forecasting. The results of the Republic of Srpska pension fund dependency ratio projections obtained using a forecast of adjusted life tables are compared to the previous research on this topic which used the life tables of the Republic of Serbia for 2013 for the same model. This way we can observe the effect of life expectancy growth on pension fund’s dependency ratio estimates as one of the measures of pension fund’s sustainability.

Keywords: best estimate mortality trend; life tables’ adjustment; pension fund dependency ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G22 H7 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/crebss-2019-0003

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