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El ahorro es absolutamente necesario para la financiación de las actividades económicas de los hogares y las empresas, o para la financiación de las administraciones públicas. En este marco, el ahorro para la jubilación es aún más necesario por la decisiva función que lo motiva: financiar la parte del ciclo vital en la que han dejado de producirse rentas laborales como consecuencia del cese de la actividad laboral. La doble función que este tipo de ahorro desempeña se constituye en uno de los pilares de la productividad y el bienestar de la sociedad porque del ahorro de cada hogar se beneficia toda la sociedad.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 provoked a global health crisis, soon followed by an economic and financial crisis. Retirement savings and old-age pension systems were one of the many components of our societies impacted by these events, which are unprecedented in recent history. The economic effects of the crisis have been accumulating for the past years as governments introduced successive health measures to try and curb the spread of the virus. The slowdown of economic activity across the globe resulted in soaring unemployment and falling stock prices in the first quarter of 2020 as financial markets reacted.

This paper explores potential influences on the ability and willingness to save for retirement, in order to uncover how asset-backed pension systems could be more inclusive of diverse populations. This paper illustrates the type of analysis that countries could conduct to better understand what factors may explain lower participation from certain individuals beyond labour market drivers, by looking at the views, attitudes, and expectations of individuals across socio-economic characteristics on a sample of adults from the UK.

One of the most important financial decisions that pension participants make concerns how they access their pension assets when they terminate employment with their plan sponsor. Their choices depend both on own preferences and the options offered by their retirement plan. This paper examines both past and future pension withdrawal choices for those with defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pensions, separately. Our data are drawn from a set of pension distribution questions we fielded in the Understanding American Study. Results show significant differences in distribution choices based on the type of retirement plan, with individuals covered by DB plans significantly more likely to select annuities compared to similar employees covered by DC plans. We also find differences in how higher annual income affects annuity choices based on coverage by DB plans. Individuals with lower levels of financial literacy and lower annual income have less knowledge of basic pension characteristics.

Los planes de pensiones de empresa tienen un incentivo fiscal que puede, bien contribuir a que los partícipes aumenten su ahorro total, o bien, por el contrario, desplazar un ahorro que se habría materializado en otros vehículos financieros en ausencia de dicho incentivo. Este trabajo utiliza datos de la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias para aproximar el ahorro adicional generado por este tipo de planes. Para ello, se compara la situación financiera de los partícipes en planes de pensiones de empresa con la de un grupo de trabajadores que, sin disponer de dichos planes, tenían edades, niveles de cualificación y puestos de trabajo similares. Una vez se construye este grupo comparable, se observa que, en promedio, cada euro ahorrado en planes de pensiones de empresa aumentó el ahorro privado en torno a 66 céntimos. Esta es la ratio entre la diferencia en riqueza neta media de los partícipes y la del grupo comparable (13.600 euros) y la cantidad media acumulada en planes de pensiones (20.600 euros). Una vez se ajusta por el hecho de que las contribuciones están exentas de tributación, el ahorro adicional generado representa en torno a 31 céntimos por cada euro contribuido, obtenido como la ratio entre los 6.500 euros de diferencia en riqueza ajustada por el subsidio fiscal entre ambos grupos y la cuantía media acumulada en planes de pensiones de empresa.

Pension Markets in Focus provides detailed and comparable statistics on retirement savings around the world. This annual statistical report contributes to the effort of making data on retirement savings available, as the OECD Core Principles of Private Pension Regulation advocates for, to enable regulators and stakeholders to evaluate the design and operation of the pension system relative to its goals.These statistics can support policy discussions through international comparisons and peer learning, and are the basis of policy recommendations in the OECD series of Pension Reviews and Pensions Outlook. These statistics can also be helpful to private sector representatives, journalists, academics and anyone interested in funded pension systems.