The Effects of Proposals for Basic Pension Reform on the Income Distribution of the Elderly in Japan |
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Authors: | Seiichi Inagaki |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Economic Research,Hitotsubashi University,Kunitachi,Japan |
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Abstract: | The aging of the population in Japan is a serious problem, and the reform of the public pension scheme is a major political
issue. Although the 2004 pension reform was enforced to ensure a sustainable pension system in such an aging society, people
remain quite apprehensive about the pension system. Consequently, various sectors have created new proposals for pension reform
to overcome these problems, and it has become a recent policy debate. The objective of this article is to prepare projections
for the income distribution of households containing elderly people using the Japanese microsimulation model, INAHSIM (Integrated
Analytical Model for Household Simulation), and to evaluate the effect of the proposals on the living standards of the elderly.
According to the simulation results, the problem of very low pension amounts for the elderly does not appear to be growing.
However, changes in co-resident families of the elderly, such as the increase in the number of people living alone, may cause
a decline in their standard of living. The author points out the problems of the previously proposed reform plans and proposes
an alternative reform plan based on the perspective used in this paper. |
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