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- Title
The old‐age pension law in Mexico: The promise of poverty in old age?
- Authors
Colín, Francisco
- Abstract
In 1997, Mexico replaced its main old‐age pension system with an individual capitalization system. In 2021, the first people subject to the new system will retire. Using a model that projects demographic and labour variables and using Monte Carlo simulations, the findings of this study show that in 2051 the percentage of men not having a pension will increase from 38 per cent to 59 per cent, and that of women from 44 per cent to 66 per cent. The replacement rate for the average Mexican worker will fall from 70 per cent to 30 per cent. The numbers of people in extreme poverty will increase by almost 2.8 million, representing 9.44 per cent of the population. Alternative scenarios are proposed that involve increasing the contribution rate and raising the retirement age.
- Subjects
MEXICO; OLD age pension laws; POVERTY statistics; MONTE Carlo method; RETIREMENT age
- Publication
International Social Security Review, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 4, p29
- ISSN
0020-871X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/issr.12220