Poverty impact of state pension reform on the elderly: an analysis of reform proposals in the 2007 Irish green paper

Baroni, Elisa; O’Donoghue, Cathal

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Authors

Baroni, Elisa
O’Donoghue, Cathal

Affiliation

Combat Poverty Agency (CPA)

Issue Date

2009-09

Keywords

POVERTY
OLDER PEOPLE
PENSION

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Working Paper

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This report focuses on the relative poverty rate of Irish elderly, and aims to study the connection between potential changes to the state pension system and such poverty rates. The majority of Irish elderly depend in fact almost exclusively on the state old age or retirement pension as their main source of income, so that such changes are expected to have a noticeable effect. In particular we use data produced by a dynamic microsimulation model (LIAM) to simulate how the poverty rate of Irish elderly in the future might change if some pension reform proposals discussed in the 2007 Green Paper were indeed introduced instead of the current Irish pension system.

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Working Paper Series
09/09

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9871905485987

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This report was funded by the Combat Poverty Agency under its Poverty Research Initiative. The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and/or recommendations expressed here are strictly those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Combat Poverty Agency, which takes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in, or for the accuracy of, the information contained in this Working Paper. It is presented to inform and stimulate wider debate among the policy community and among academics and practitioners in the field.

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