Measurement Issues for Adequacy Comparisons among Pension Systems

Date of publication: 
16 January 2009
Pages: 
21
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In this paper, indexes are proposed in order to capture the degree to which a pension scheme 1) prevents poverty among the elderly, 2) enables smoothing of living standards after retirement and 3) induces both intra- and inter-generational solidarity.