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| Pension Contribution Reduction Mechanism and Policy Implementation for Women with Occupational Interruption in OECD Countries |
| HAO Jun-fu |
| College of Insurance and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, 100029 |
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Abstract Women may be constantly faced with the interruption of their careers due to their responsibilities to look after the family or simply unemployment. Occupational interruption leads to dramatic loss of women’s pension, and makes the poverty issue of aging women more serious. To relieve the negative impact of occupational disruption on women’s pension, most OECD countries provide pension contribution reduction mechanisms to women with professional interruptions in their public pension plans. The practice of OECD countries shows that “pension contribution reduction” is an effective pension mechanism design, which helps to fill the payment gap caused by occupational interruptions, and thus make women have more sufficient income in retirement. It becomes an important anti-poverty tool for aging women. The practice of OECD countries also shows that the impact of the pension contribution reduction policy depends on the generosity degree of the mechanism design. The pension contribution reduction mechanism needs to take into account both the generosity degree of the policy, the financial cost and employment incentives. The pension contribution reduction mechanism needs to be combined with the “family-friendly” employment policy.
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Received: 28 May 2018
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