• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.593-601
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• 2015

We summarize the twelve papers carefully selected for aging, pensions, and related issues, The twelve novel papers are grouped into three categories: sustainability, adequacy, pension reforms. In particular, these twelve papers include depth and extensive discussions for national pension system and present the direction of the various pension reforms. It will be a great help to policy makers and researchers.

• Journal of Teachers' Pension
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• v.5
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• pp.219-241
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• 2020

연기연금제도는 연금 지급개시연령 도달 이후 일정 기간 연금수급을 포기하는 대신 급여에 일정액을 가산하여 지급하는 제도이다. 연기연금은 지급개시연령 도달 이전에 수급을 신청하면 일정액을 가산하여 차감하고 지급하는 조기연금과 상호보완적인 기능을 수행하며 유연은퇴(flexible retirement)의 주요한 축을 구성한다. 연기연금제도의 정책적 목적은 수급자별 다양한 재무적 상황에 따라 보다 유연한 은퇴설계와 노후소득 확충을 지원하는 제도적 장치를 마련하는 것이다. 하지만 현재 연기연금제도는 국민연금에는 시행되고 있으나 사학연금을 비롯한 직역연금에는 도입되지 않고 있다. 최근 공적연금간 급여규정 수렴화에도 불구하고 사학연금을 비롯한 직역연금에서 연기연금을 도입하지 않는 배경에는 공적연금간 급여 형평성 등 많은 쟁점사항들이 영향을 미치기 때문일 것이다. 하지만 이 연구는 그러한 기저의 논쟁에서 벗어나 제도의 재무적 특성 분석을 목적으로 한다. 분석자료는 연금수급을 위한 요건을 충족한 퇴직자 중 연금수급연령 미도달자로 이들 대기자 그룹의 미시자료를 이용해 연기연금 적용 시 제도의 총급여액 증가를 야기하지 않는 재정 중립적 증액률(plan-neutral deferral rate)을 산출하였다. 분석결과, 분석자료를 대상으로 한 산술적 증액률은 6.75%였으나 민감도 분석의 결과를 반영한 적정수준은 6% 이하일 것으로 사료된다. 이는 장기적 추정의 특성상 적용되는 가정변수 수준에 따라 변동폭이 클 뿐만 아니라 하위 구성집단간의 이질적 특성으로 산출되는 증액률의 편차가 크기 때문이다. 따라서 재정 안정성을 훼손하지 않기 위해서는 보수적 관점의 접근이 필수적이다. 연구의 구성은 크게 세 부분으로 II장에서는 소득활동관련 연금의 주요한 수단으로 연기연금의 제도적 필요성을 검토하고, III장에서는 실제 사학연금 가입자 자료를 이용해 재정 중립적 증액률을 산출하고 주요 변수별, 특성 집단별 증액률에 대한 분석결과 및 시사점을 기술하였다. IV장에서는 장기 재정안정성을 저해하지 않기 위해 적정 증액률 산정 시 추가적으로 고려해야 되는 재무적 관련사항을 기술하였다.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.247-281
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• 2012

This study investigates issues, which the current disability benefit of the national pension Scheme is facing, and seeks improvements concerning the universalism of coverage, the adequacy of benefit levels, and the equity of institution. The low universalism problem is caused by the coverage deficits and the strict disability assessment system of NPS and can be overcome by widening the disability category and changing the disability assessment system to workability test. In addition, the benefit level of the disability pension will be reduced stronger than the old age benefit in the long. The low benefit level due to the short contribution period and the low disbursement rate and can be improved by the enhancement of the standard contribution years and the disbursement rate. On the other hand, the main reason of the equality problem can be seen as the requirements for benefit, which are applied differently depending on the membership status. As policy measures, the unification of requirement on the basis of a recent payment, a payment in a certain percentage of life, or a hybrid of both criteria is investigated.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.643-661
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• 2015

Korea Teachers Pension (private school pension) is a mandatory pension and a social security system for private school teachers to ensure the stability of subscribers by a supplying pension when they (and their dependents) face future economic risk due to retirement or death. Therefore, the Teachers Pension must provide stability and sustainability in regards to adequacy of income and to function as a pension. However, the Government Employees Pension System (GEPS) of Korea (the most representative special occupation pension) recorded a fiscal deficit in 2001 and with an accumulated deficit that is expected to grow; subsequently, various plans for the reform of GEPS have been actively discussed. The Korea Teachers Pension system is based on the GEPS scheme and is not free from the GEPS discussions on reforms of national pension. The current system for the Teachers Pension needs to be improved because it is expected to be depleted within the next 30 years due to low fertility and an aging population in Korea. This study discusses existing Teachers Pension schemes problems and suggests a projection method and revised plans to improve it. We use long-term financial projections of the Teachers Pension to estimate the fund exhaustion point and the minus balance of the financial scale as well as analyze the supply-demand burden structure that reflects the future population structure to propose Teachers Pension reforms that will improve stability and adequacy.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.113-126
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• 1990

With the introduction of the national pension, efficient integration of Korea's four public pension schemes has been discussed. The main point of such discussions is whether to have a progressive scheme or an income-proportional one. Under the assumption of a perfect labor market, it has been proved in the income tax literature that the regressive tax scheme with the 0 % tax rate to the most able person (person earning highest income) is pareto efficient, if there is an incentive problem in the labor supply. In this paper, a life-cycle model with a linear benefit schedule, when there is uncertainty about future earning ability, is studied. It is proved that the second best pension scheme is that having a progressive benefit schedule. This result implies that integration into a progressive pension scheme, like the current national pension, is required not only for efficiency but also for equity.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1315-1331
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• 2014

Replacement rates which shows the ratio of retirement income relative to preretirement income is used for a valuable evaluation measures while discussing social security benefit levels or the adequacy of retirement income. However, replacement rates has been only used for an index for evaluating benefit level at the time of retirement or specific retirement period in advanced research projects. This article analyzes how much the uncertainty of survival has an influence on retirement income, and shows replacement rates in conformity with the period of survival as an index. The researchers named this index lifetime income replacement rates. Analysis based on this index shows both life replacement income rates of 38.3% in men's case and of 41.1% in women's case while enrolled for 20years in three pension plans - national pension, retirement pension and individual annuity.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.203-225
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• 2016

The permanent disability benefit(PDB) system whose purpose lies in helping affected workers with their self-realization through compensating them for their work-related injury or disease and facilitating their timely return to work is very important in terms of social welfare. Actually, the portions of PDB's in all WCI expenditures have been on the sharp increase. In spite of its positive aspects like this, however, an excessive amount of PDB's may have negative impacts on the affected workers' will to work or return to work, and increasing trends in the amount of PDB's payable in annuity will remain in an aging or aged society a potentially risky factor posing a threat to the soundness of WCI budgets. In this respect, the author attempted herein to identify the long-term reality of trends in the number of claimants entitled to PDB's and the amount of PDB's payable to them through making the long-term budget projections of PDB's; address problems with PDB's payable in annuity, which are or will potentially be one of the gravest burdens in securing the soundness of WCI budgets; and discuss how to optimize the amount of PDB's through studying & analyzing overseas cases and income replacement rates and what kinds of improvements are thinkable. It's recommended to reduce the absolute amount of benefits payable in annuity in a phased way considering claimants' life-cycle instead of sticking to the current system, which takes the form of lifelong pension plan.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.66 no.3
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• pp.231-251
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• 2014

Recently, Korean government documented the plan to cope with the situation related to rich pensioners of Basic old-age pension. The purpose of this paper is to verify that how many rich pensioners are existing and to evaluate government reform plan's validity and effect. Main results are as follows; firstly, if the definition of rich pensioners is on the top 10%, the proportion of them would form 2.9% of total. And then, an amount of expenditure for them is only 2.6% of total. Secondly, in terms of disposable income, debt, and transfer income from child, the household who would be applied by government's plan is not richer than other household who is in the same living standard. And then, if the government's plan enforced, the effect might be very small. Lastly, the plan of government will discriminate against persons who support their parent. As a result, Basic old-age pension will be worsen. This paper should underline that the government's reform is only the 'hidden' retrenchment strategy in order to introduce a standard of the obligation to support own parent in the state without scientific prediction and serious discussion of negative public opinion. That is why, this is the same as the 'Trojan Horse'.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.69-76
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• 2023

To improve the financial stability of the National Pension, an appropriate target rate of return should be established based on pension liabilities, and asset allocation policies should be formulated accordingly. The purpose of this study is to calculate the target rate of return considering the contributions of subscribers and the pension benefits, and based on this, derive an asset allocation. To do this, we utilized the internal rate of return methodology to calculate the target rate of return for each cohort. And then, we employed a Monte Carlo simulation-based re-sampling mean-variance model to derive asset allocation for each cohort that satisfy the target rate of return while minimizing risks. Our result shows that the target rate of return for each cohort ranged from 6.4% to 6.85%, and it decreased as the generations advanced due to a decrease in the income replacement rate of the National Pension. Consequently, the allocation of risky assets, such as stocks, was relatively reduced in the portfolios of future generations. This study holds significance in that it departs from the macroeconomic-based asset allocation methodology and proposes investments from an asset-liability management perspective, which considers the characteristics of subscribers' liabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.85-94
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• 2017

This study examined the factors influencing the health status according to class and socioeconomic class recognition by the employment type. To take advantage of the 18 original sources of the Korea Labor panel materials carried out in the South Korea Labor Institute, 5,158 adults over 20 years old were included in the final analysis. The research results revealed that the incomes of regular workers and non-regular workers between the hierarchy and socioeconomic hierarchy recognition showed a statistically significant difference between the cage; it was consistent between the hierarchy in only the "heavy" category. Regular workers of society, and regardless of non-regular workers, were analyzed to be relatively low compared to the actual income. Regression analysis showed that regular jobs had higher socioeconomic hierarchy recognition. Non-regular workers had a lower income bracket and lower socioeconomic hierarchy recognition. In particular, in the case of non-regular workers, the pension was not subscribed and they had a poorer state of health. Therefore, the pension insurance payment for non-regular workers needs to compensate for the lost income during non-employment periods. In addition, the government should improve public relations through education, management fields, and cooperation with labor.