New Zealand’s approach to retirement income

24/06/1999


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Table of Contents

New Zealand’s approach to retirement income

Why NZ is unusual

Historical overview

Reducing the generosity of the state pension

Is public provision affordable?

Future sustainability?

Options to reduce cost of NZS

PRG recommendations

In 1998, Accord finally put to rest

Current shape of pension

Genuine problems with NZ model

Retirement incomes design is a distributional issue

Equity issues

Why universal pensions are vulnerable

Why is integration tricky?

A welfare approach

Top-up approaches

Where have private pensions gone?

Pressing reform issues

Conclusion

Author: Susan St John

Email: s.stjohn@auckland.ac.nz

Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/9441/SusanStJohn/

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