ETK Pension Research Forum: Pensions in Transition – Sustainability and Policy Challenges in Ageing Societies
The second ETK Pension Research Forum delves into distributional aspects of pension policies and the consequences of increasing retirement ages. Welcome to the webinar on Monday 16 March 2026 at 13:00–15:30 (CET). The webinar is in English.
The webinar presentations will provide in-depth insights into wealth inequality and redistribution through pension systems, the lifetime redistributive effect of pension policies and risk and resilience factors of pension adequacy. Furthermore, the consequences of linking retirement age to life expectancy and the impact of higher age thresholds on the norm for retirement timing will be discussed. The presentations show insights from cross-country comparative evaluations, as well as findings from the Netherlands and Sweden. Two commentators will discuss the research in a broader context.
Join the ETK Pension Research Forum to hear expert insights and engage in discussions on issues related to both current and future pension policy challenges.
PROGRAMME
13:00 (CET) Opening remarks
Susan Kuivalainen (Finnish Centre for Pensions)
From Evidence to Impact: Advancing Pension Research
Part 1: Wealth, redistribution, and pension adequacy
- Kun Lee (LISER & LIS)
Wealth Inequality and Welfare States: Pension Systems, the Public-Private Mix, and Augmented Wealth in Old Age - Sander Muns (Tilburg University)
The redistributive effect of pensions: A synthetic lifecycle analysis - Olaf Simonse (Leiden University)
- Mind the Gap: Risk and Resilience Factors Predicting Pension Adequacy in the Netherlands
- Comment by Markus Jäntti (Stockholm University)
- Discussion
14:30 (CET) Part 2: Increasing retirement age and its consequences
- Christin Czaplicki & Nicole Brumm (German Federal Pension Insurance)
Linking Retirement Age and Life Expectancy: Insights from Cross-Country Comparisons - Susanne Schaftenaar & Philip Berlin Jarhamn (Swedish Pensions Agency)
Does Increasing the Target Retirement Age Affect the Labour Market and Pension Withdrawal Norms? Evidence from Two Studies of Sweden’s 2023 Reform - Comment by TBA
- Discussion
Moderators: Ilari Ilmakunnas and Susanna Sten-Gahmberg (Finnish Centre for Pensions)
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