Reforms for an Ageing Society [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the 29 OECD countries as they relate to ageing. Recent reforms have been driven mainly by fiscal factors - to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the ageing of the baby boom generation. This remains a main concern in many countries. A new reform agenda is emerging, however, that marries fiscal objectives with broader social and economic policy goals. It focuses on active ageing, providing opportunities and incentives for people to contribute more actively in the labour market and society as they grow older. This involves slowing, or reversing, trends towards ever-longer periods of time spent in retirement. This agenda is associated with likely trends towards a more diversified system of retirement income in most OECD countries - with more reliance on private pensions and a likely increase of earnings as a source of income among older people. Familiar policy debates -- such as the balance between public and private pensions -- may need to be recast to take account of the likely future growth in the role of earnings in the retirement income system. Interesting new questions arise. In the longer-term future, what should be the role of government policy in influencing the balance between work and leisure in older years? What priority should be attached to policies that support very long periods of passivity in the last third of life?
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""Repairing the work incentives in pensions â€? linking contributions and benefits""""Closing or restricting some pathways to retirement""; ""Strengthening new pathways to retirement â€? often involving gradual transitions""; ""Other ways of increasing participation rates""; ""Box 1.1. Retirement incentives and labour supply â€? A policy principle of Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society""; ""Box 1.2. The United States leads in empirical understanding of the retirement transition""
""Box 1.3. Raising the age eligibility for New Zealand Superannuation had a substantial effect on employment rates""""Box 1.4. Examples of reforms that increase the age of pension eligibility""; ""Box 1.5. Reforms that increase work incentives through benefit and contribution changes""; ""Box 1.6. Selected examples of pension reforms where raising the retirement age is an integral part of larger reforms""; ""Box 1.7. Examples of reforms that close or restrict some pathways to retirement""; ""Box 1.8. United Kingdom highlighted reform to disability programme""
""Box 1.9. Examples of reforms that strengthen new pathways to retirement""""Chapter 2""; ""EMPLOYABILITY OF OLDER WORKERS â€? A WORKPLACE FOR ALL AGES?""; ""Summary and main results""; ""The present situation""; ""The scale of the policy challenge and of national responses""; ""Reform trends""; ""Retaining older workers""; ""Helping older people find new jobs""; ""Promoting a work force for all ages""; ""Box 2.1. The employability of older workers â€? A policy principle of Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society""
""Box 2.2. Examples of reforms specifically intended to retain older workers""""Box 2.3. Examples of reforms intended to help older people find new jobs""; ""Box 2.4. Examples of reforms intended to produce a workplace for all ages""; ""Chapter 3""; ""FISCAL CONSOLIDATION â€? OBVIOUS PROGRESS IN MANY COUNTRIES""; ""Summary and main results""; ""The present situation""; ""The scale of the challenge and of national policy responses""; ""Reform trends""; ""Cuts in expenditure or increases in contributions""; ""Fiscal action in non-age-related programming can relieve the pressures of ageing""
""New models for financing of pensions and long-term care""
This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the 29 OECD countries as they relate to ageing. Recent reforms have been driven mainly by fiscal factors - to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the ageing of the baby boom generation. This remains a main concern in many countries. A new reform agenda is emerging, however, that marries fiscal objectives with broader social and economic policy goals. It focuses on active ageing, providing opportunities and incentives for people to contribute more actively in the labour market and society as they grow older. This involves slowing, or reversing, trends towards ever-longer periods of time spent in retirement. This agenda is associated with likely trends towards a more diversified system of retirement income in most OECD countries - with more reliance on private pensions and a likely increase of earnings as a source of income among older people. Familiar policy debates -- such as the balance between public and private pensions -- may need to be recast to take account of the likely future growth in the role of earnings in the retirement income system. Interesting new questions arise. In the longer-term future, what should be the role of government policy in influencing the balance between work and leisure in older years? What priority should be attached to policies that support very long periods of passivity in the last third of life?
Aging
Older people
Older people

Des réformes pour une société vieillissante