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Vincent Vandenberghe

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Sponsor Project Title IRES Promoters IRES Researchers Beginning End
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Sustainable, adequate and safe pensions: financial architecture, social justice and governance

  Vincent Vandenberghe   09/2018 08/2023

Project Description

The provision of replacement incomes (pensions) for old people is among one of the main achievements of modern advanced economies. Historically, the State and other entities successfully organized the provision of public pensions. There is no doubt that this contributed to the wellbeing of elderly citizens1. It is also likely to have played a significant role in the reduction of old-age poverty. However, public pension budgets are now increasingly challenged by demographic and economic developments, namely rapid population ageing combined with slow(er) economic growth. Hence, policy makers around the world are confronted with the challenging task of reforming existing pension systems. This interdisciplinary research project aims at critically assessing the key conditions that a public pension system should fulfil to be successfully reformed. Our hypothesis is that there are three such conditions: i)financial sustainability, ii) social adequacy and iii) safe governance. Hence, the ‘SAS’ acronym. Our goal is to identify the pension architecture that is the most likely to generate SAS pensions. That researchwill rest on diverse approaches (conceptual,numerical, empirical and normative) to assess the properties of various possible pension architectures, through the prism of SAS criteria.

Publications


Journal Articles


1. Baurin, Arno. The limited power of socioeconomic status to predict lifespan: Implications for pension policy. In: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 20, p. 10039 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100339. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/256975

2. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Differentiating Retirement Age to Compensate for Health Differences. In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, , p. 1-42 (2021). (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/244051

3. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Health, Cognition and Work Capacity Beyond the Age of 50: International Evidence on the Extensive and Intensive Margin of Work. In: International Labour Review, Vol. 160, no. 2, p. 271 - 310 (2021). doi:10.1111/ilr.12174. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/230720

4. Hindriks, Jean; Baurin, Arno. Financement des pensions : rétrospectives et perspectives. In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, Vol. LVIII, no.1, p. 97-119 (2019). doi:10.3917/rpve.581.0097. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/218311

5. Baurin, Arno; Hindriks, Jean. Quels sont les métiers pénibles ?. In: Regards économiques, Vol. 151 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/222080

6. Baurin, Arno; Hindriks, Jean. Financement des pensions et le compte individuel pension. In: Revue Belge de Sécurité Sociale, Vol. 2019(2), p. 333-359 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/227780


Book Chapters


1. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Working Beyond 50. In: Handbook of Labor, Human ressources and Population Economics , Springer, 2022, p. 1-23. 978-3-319-57365-6. xxx xxx. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_286-1. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/260486

2. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Augmenter la durée des carrières: La seule réponse possible au vieillissement?. In: L'emploi et ses nouveaux défis: Vieillisement, digitalisation,migration & (dé)mondialisation (Actes du Congrès des Economistes Belges de Langue française; xxx), Editions de l'Université Ouverte, 2019, p. 75-88. 978-2-87306-154-8. xxx xxx. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/237192


Working Papers


1. Baurin, Arno; Tubeuf, Sandy; Vandenberghe, Vincent. Inferring Occupation Arduousness from Poor Health Beyond the Age of 50. 2022. 65 p. LIDAM Discussion Paper IRES/2022/05. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/259287

2. Cetin, Sefane. Joint Retirement: Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Spousal Effects. 2021. 28 p. LIDAM Discussion Paper IRES/2021/31. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/255656

3. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Partial De-Annuitization of Public Pensions v.s. Retirement Age Differentiation. Which is Best to Account for Longevity Differences?. 2021. 31 p. LIDAM Discussion Paper IRES/2021/29. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/255653

4. Baurin, Arno. The Limited Power of Socioeconomic Status to Predict Longevity: Implications for Pension Policy. 2020. 36 p. IRES Discussion Papers 2020019. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/230367

5. Baurin, Arno; Hindriks, Jean. Pension financing and individual retirement account. 2020. 25 p. IRES Discussion papers; CORE Discussion papers 2020002; 2020/04. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/225221

6. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Differentiating Retirement Age to Compensate for Health Differences. 2020. 25 p. IRES Discussion Papers 2020015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/229501

7. Vandenberghe, Vincent. The Rather Limited Role Of Mental Ill Health In Driving Work Beyond 50. 2020. 41 p. IRES Discussion Papers 2020020. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/231504

8. Vandenberghe, Vincent. Health, Cognition and Work Capacity Beyond the Age of 50: International Evidence on the Extensive and Intensive Margin of Work. 2019. 44 p. xxx xxx. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/212341