Le casse di previdenza per i liberi professionisti: un ottimo da rivedere

For each profession, Italy has a separate pay-as-you-go pension scheme, with low contribution rates and generous pension formulas. The internal real rate of return is about 6 percent. Financial equilibrium has so far been possible thanks to low pensioners/workers rations. This article performs simul...

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Main Author: O. CASTELLINO
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Associazione Economia civile 2013-10-01
Series:Moneta e Credito
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Online Access:https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/moneta_e_credito/article/view/11047
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Summary:For each profession, Italy has a separate pay-as-you-go pension scheme, with low contribution rates and generous pension formulas. The internal real rate of return is about 6 percent. Financial equilibrium has so far been possible thanks to low pensioners/workers rations. This article performs simulations for three “steady states” are considered, corresponding to a 0,1 and 2 percent yearly increase in the flow workers. These simulations show that the current generosity cannot be maintained int he future; a reform raising contributions and cutting pension formulas is urgently needed.     JEL Codes: G23, H55  
ISSN:2037-3651