The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons From the Social Protection Survey

Alberto Arenas de Mesa, David Bravo, Jere Behrman, Olivia Mitchell and Petra Todd

No 12401, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In 1980, Chile dramatically reformed its retirement system, replacing what was an old insolvent PAYGO program with a new structure that relies heavily on funded defined contribution individual accounts. In addition, eligibility and benefit requirements were standardized, and a safety net for old-age poverty was strengthened. Twenty-five years after this reform, the Chilean model is being re-assessed, in terms of coverage, contribution, investment, and retirement benefit outcomes. This paper introduces a recently-developed longitudinal survey of individual respondents in Chile, the Social Protection Survey (or Encuesta de Previsión Social, EPS), and illustrates some uses of this survey for microeconomic analysis of key aspects of the Chilean system.

JEL-codes: G23 H55 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-08
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Published as Kay, Stephen and Tapen Sinha (eds.) Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas. Oxford: OUP, 2008.

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