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Intergenerational actuarial fairness when longevity increases: Amending the retirement age
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Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end, countries have adopted alternative retirement age strategies, but our analyses show that the measures taken are often poorly designed and consequently misaligned with the pension scheme's ultimate goals. This paper discusses how to implement automatic indexation of the retirement age to life expectancy developments while respecting the principles of intergenerational actuarial fairness and neutrality among generations of the respective policy scheme design. With stable demographic conditions, we show in policy designs in which extended working lives translate into additional pension entitlements, the pension age must be automatically updated to keep the period in retirement constant (...)
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BRAVO, Jorge Miguel, et al. Intergenerational actuarial fairness when longevity increases: Amending the retirement age. Insurance Mathematics and Economics. 2023. Vol. 113, num. 161-184. ISSN 0167-6687. [consulted: 14 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/201940