TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kashiwase,Kenichiro
AU  - Nozaki,Masahiro
AU  - Tokuoka,Kiichi
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
TI  - Pension reforms in Japan
T2  - IMF working paper
SN  - 9781475576801
AV  - HG3881.5.I58 W67 No. 12/285eb
U1  - 331.25/20952 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - [Washington, D.C.]
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Pensions
KW  - Japan
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
N1  - Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Dec. 6, 2012); "Asia and Pacific Department and Fiscal Affairs Department."; "December 2012."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - This paper analyzes various reform options for Japan's public pension in light of large fiscal consolidation needs of the country. The most attractive option is to increase the pension eligibility age in line with high and rising life expectancy. This would have a positive effect on long-run economic growth and would be relatively fair in sharing the burden of fiscal adjustment between younger and older generations. Other attractive options include better targeting by "clawing back" a small portion of pension benefits from wealthy retirees, reducing preferential tax treatment of pension benefit incomes, and collecting contributions from dependent spouses of employees, who are currently eligible for pension benefits even though they make no contributions. These options, if implemented concurrently, could reduce the government annual subsidy and the government deficit by up to 1 1/4 percent of GDP by 2020
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