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We are beginning to appreciate that in our productive years we must work harder, because our retirement years will be longer and healthier, and the income support provided by our governments and employers will be far less generous than they used to be.
There are many policy suggestions to address fiscal sustainability and workforce shortages already under consideration, including higher retirement ages and mandatory contributions, together with lower benefits.
Its weakness is somewhat surprising: real incomes are up, and the coalition government that came to power last year has introduced a series of generous welfare measures, including a large increase in the minimum wage, a reduction of the retirement age, and a special top-up pension for women with children.
Some say the bar to a good economy is the Continent's inflated welfare state and the solution is retrenchment, beginning with raising retirement ages.
The combination of rising life expectancy, lower fertility rates, and, in some countries (including the US), the retirement of the post-World War II baby-boom generation, implies a rapid increase in the old-age dependency ratio.
Japan’s demographic crisis is particularly acute in rural areas, where the average age of farmers is surpassing the retirement age.
Bush has been traveling the country promoting a plan to introduce personal retirement accounts invested in stocks and bonds.
So many leading cyclists have tested positive for drugs, or have admitted, from the safety of retirement, that they used them, that one can plausibly doubt that it is possible to be competitive in this event otherwise.
Making Retirement WorkMILAN – In most developed countries, a retirement of leisure is one of the great socioeconomic innovations of the past century.
Making matters worse, the official retirement age has not been adjusted to account for longer life spans.
The standard way to fix this problem is to raise the retirement age or cut pension benefits.
A policy of mandatory active retirement would avoid some of the pitfalls of the standard approach.
Studies show that idle retirement leads to a sharp decline in one’s cognitive skills, whereas a policy of active retirement would encourage older people to pursue fulfilling new challenges.
At the end of the day, conditioning retirement benefits on work represents a fair compromise between the self-defeating technocratic approach and the unsustainable populist approach.
Idle retirement is a remarkable socioeconomic experiment that has been rendered unsustainable by current economic and demographic trends.
Popular discontent in Russia has also been inflamed by the authorities’ widely reviled pension reform, which includes an increase in the retirement age.
It was a sentiment shared by many Americans who went to hear her lecture after her retirement.
In China, by contrast, officials can exchange favors while in office for higher-paying jobs or benefits after retirement.
Likewise, societies that defer instant consumption in order to save and invest for the future will enjoy higher future incomes and greater retirement security.
China’s population is aging rapidly, and Chinese households are saving for retirement.
For example, although life expectancy in Europe has increased by nine years since the 1970s, effective retirement ages have fallen by six years, leaving only 35% of people aged 55-74 participating in the labor force.
Here, Sweden – which links the retirement age to life expectancy, thereby expanding a productive “silver” workforce – shows the way.
And, indeed, increasing the retirement age was an element in the Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish bailout packages.
But once American households rebuild their retirement accounts, they may return to their profligate ways.
First, workers need to be encouraged to provide for their own retirement.
In part this is accomplished by explicitly reducing entitlements and raising retirement age from absurdly low levels.
Several European countries are considering raising their remarkably low retirement ages, or have already done so.
In a rare show of state determination, President Mesic suspended and forced into retirement all twelve officers.
The aging of the German population then made it seem urgent to save collectively for retirement by running surpluses.
Even the most banal statements of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl, pronouncing from retirement on the dangers of betraying their European dream, are adored as shimmering pearls of wisdom.
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