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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820534803321

Autore

Kiff John

Titolo

The Impact of Longevity Improvements on U.S. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans / / John Kiff, Michael Kisser, Mauricio Soto, S. Oppers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-2676-8

1-4755-6809-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

KisserMichael

SotoMauricio

OppersS

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Defined benefit pension plans - United States

Longevity - United States

Insurance

Labor

Public Finance

Demography

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits

Private Pensions

Social Security and Public Pensions

Health: General

Economics of the Elderly

Economics of the Handicapped

Non-labor Market Discrimination

Insurance Companies

Actuarial Studies

Pensions

Health economics

Population & demography

Insurance & actuarial studies

Pension spending

Health

Aging



Expenditure

Population and demographics

Financial institutions

Population aging

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I: Introduction; II: Related Literature; III: Data; IV: Analysis; A: A Simple Valuation Model; B: Main Results; C: Additional Robustness Checks; V: Conclusion; References; Appendix 1

Sommario/riassunto

This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and financial information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, we construct a longevity variable for each pension plan and then measure the impact of varying life expectancy assumptions across plans and over time on pension plan liabilities. The results indicate that each additional year of life expectancy increases pension liabilities by about 3 to 4 percent. This effect is not only statistically highly significant but also economically: each year of additional life expectancy would increase private U.S. DB pension plan liabilities by as much as $84 billion.