Chilean pension reform

Soto, Mauricio. “Chilean pension reform”. Issue in Brief 31, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, June 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104473.
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Abstract

In 1980, the Chilean pension system was in crisis. It was paying more in benefits than it was receiving in contributions, and the projected actuarial imbalance was greater than the country's Gross Domestic Product.1 The prescribed solution was to radically transform the traditional pay-as-you-go structure to a system based on personal retirement accounts. The Box on page two describes the main features of the current system. Nearly 25 years after the reform, it is possible to assess the Chilean experience...

Title
Chilean pension reform: The good, the bad, and the in between
Author
Soto, Mauricio
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
June 2005
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
31
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104473
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Subject
Social Security

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