Aging, saving, and public pensions in japan / Charles Yuji Horioka, Wataru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hatta.

Author/creator Horioka, Charles
Other author Suzuki, Wataru.
Other author Hatta, Tatsuo.
Other author National Bureau of Economic Research.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research,
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SeriesNBER working paper series ; working paper 13273
Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 13273. UNAUTHORIZED
Summary "We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan's population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan's population is causing Japan's household saving rate to decline and this decline can be expected to continue; third, the pay-as-you-go nature of the public pension system, combined with rapid population aging, created considerable intergenerational inequities and increased the saving rates of cohorts born after 1965, which in turn slowed the decline in Japan's household saving rate; and fourth, the 2004 public pension reform alleviated the intergenerational inequities of Japan's public pension system somewhat but will in the long run exacerbate the downward trend in Japan's household saving rate"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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