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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2016.27.1.19

Analysis of the 2015 reform plan of government employees pension system (GEPS) through monte carlo simulations  

Lee, Jieun (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
Song, Seongjoo (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.27, no.1, 2016 , pp. 19-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the increasing fiscal burden and structural unbalanced premium/benefit costs, the new reform on the government employees pension system (GEPS) was considered even after the recent reform in 2009. This article examines the various effects of recent amendment in 2015 on GEPS using a simple probabilistic model. We consider effects on both sides, the pensioners and the government. First of all, the expected net value of pension payment for an individual employee was calculated based on the supposed survival distribution. The fairness of individual pension holders was compared using the benefit-cost ratio. Secondly, from pension system users' point of view, the default probability and the government subsidy were examined by Monte-carlo simulation. From the simulation experiment, we could see that the 2015 reform plan indeed reduces the default probability and the size of the fiscal burden of government by increasing the premium and decreasing the benefit. However, the size of the effect is not very standout at this moment because the number of new employees who are fully subject to the reform will be much smaller than the number of previous employees for a while. Thus, the effect of the reform is expected to appear in a slow manner.
Keywords
Default probability; government employees pension system; monte carlo simulation;
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