Project description
An innovative view of retirement age
The ageing of the population is bringing about dramatic demographic changes and posing challenges for national pension policies. Recent reforms driven by financial considerations have been widely criticised as unfair. The EU-funded PenAgeing project will work on a detailed case study of equitable pension ages by providing policy makers with two kinds of tools that can facilitate structural adaptions in public policies. The project will use new data and up-to-date measures on population ageing, taking into consideration the changing characteristics of populations. Moreover, it will apply an innovative methodology that produces scenarios of equitable normal pension ages based on the details of a specific pension system and software that can immediately be updated every time the UN produces new data.
Objective
Demographic changes in survival rates and age structures require adaptions in public policies. This grant will produce a social benefit by providing policy makers with two kinds of tools that they will need to make these adaptions, fair normal pension ages and consistently up-to-date measures of population ageing that take the changing characteristics of populations into account. An important area of adaption is national pension policy. Recently changes in pension policies have been driven by financial considerations and have aroused a great deal of dissent. One reason for the unhappiness with proposed pension reforms is that they place the burden of reform inequitably. People generally dislike inequitable policies. In this grant, we will produce a detailed case study of equitable pension ages. In the ReAgeing project we dealt with fairness in a very general framework. In this grant, we present an innovative methodology that produces scenarios of equitable normal pension ages using the details of a specific pension system. This grant shows how fairness can enter public policy discussions of ageing.
In the future, new problems with respect to population ageing could arise and new data will certainly become available. In the ReAgeing grant, we produced many new measures of population ageing that took the changing characteristics of populations, such as remaining life expectancy and health into account. Our presentations were based on data that were available at the time of writing. In order for the results of the ReAgeing grant to remain relevant requires a second innovation, a way to keep the new measures of population ageing up-to-date. We do this with two pieces of software that can immediately be updated every time the UN produces a new round of data. We cannot predict exactly how demographic conditions will change. With these pieces of software, we can be sure that we will have the tools to deal with them.
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Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
- pensions
- pension ages
- population ageing
- characteristics approach to population ageing
- ReAgeing
- fair pensions
- equitable pension ages
- intergenerationally equitable normal pension ages
- intragenerationally equitable normal pension ages
- World Ageing Data Explorer
- ReAgeingSS R package
- Shiny server
- CRAN R package
- easily updated software
- World Population Ageing
- World Population Prospects
Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant
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2361 Laxenburg
Austria
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