sostenibilità

• Are European Pensions Adequate and Sustainable?

  One in four European Union (EU) citizens currently depend on their pension income.
  Younger citizens will one day benefit from pensions too. And they also have an
  immediate interest, as the taxes and social security contributions working age people
  pay help support current pensioners. However, pensions are one of the biggest public
  expenditure items in the EU and as the EU population ages due to lower birth rates and
  increasing longevity, pension systems have come under increasing pressure.
  Since its inception in 2011, the European Semester process has resulted in a
  pension-related Country Specific Recommendation (CSR) for a majority of Member
  States every year. And the 2015 Ageing Report shows there has been good progress in
  making pension systems more sustainable.
  Overall EU spending on public pensions as a percentage of GDP is now expected to be
  similar in 2060 to today’s level, despite demographic ageing. But pensions also need to
  be adequate and the recently published 2015 Pension Adequacy Report (PAR) gives a
  comprehensive picture of this both now and in the future. Whilst acceptable levels of
  adequacy have largely been maintained for current pensioners, this is not the case
  everywhere or for all groups (e.g. women are at greater risk of inadequate retirement
  income). And as the impact of pension reforms feeds through, there are some
  challenges to be faced if the growing numbers of future EU pensioners are to avoid
  poverty or large falls in their income on retirement.

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• 2015 Pension Adequacy Report

  Europe’s pension systems can be expected to deliver adequate pensions also to future generations of retirees provided Member States pursue strong policies to enable as many workers as possible to stay in jobs until they reach the statutory pension age, a new report on pension adequacy shows. The findings of the 2015 Pension Adequacy Report will be endorsed today by the Employment and Social Affairs Council.

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• Sustainability of Health Systems

       

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• PayGo Sustainability

  This RN is a much shorter version of the chapter forthcoming in "Fondazione Rosselli Report". It is a brief investigation on the sustainability of PayGo to finance health care and pensions. The English version aims at favouring a wider circulation. The idea is only in a nutshell, and several extensions can be planned.

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• Le Risorse per il Welfare del Futuro

  Il finanziamento del welfare ha bisogno di un rinnovamento di concezione e di struttura. Così come lo osserviamo oggi, è il frutto di condizioni economiche e sociali che non esistono più. Insistere con gli assetti attuali, sia sul lato degli istituti di spesa che su quello del reperimento delle risorse, significa chiudersi in un cul-de-sac da cui sarà sempre più difficile riemergere. I numeri mostrati in questo scritto evidenziano che il problema non è solo italiano, e nemmeno soltanto europeo. Si ha di fronte una sfida di cambiamento che, trasversale a tutte le forme di ripartizione (pay-as-you-go pubblico, mutualità privata e pooling assicurativo), coinvolge anche gli Stati Uniti. Non è una competizione tra pubblico e privato, o tra modello europeo mediterraneo e modello continentale, o tra sistemi a radici europee e sistemi a radici americane.

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