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Equity across Generations and Uncertainty within a Generation: A Welfare Analysis of the National Pension System

  • KWON, KYOOHO
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.1-39
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    • 2019
  • This paper utilizes a life-cycle overlapping-generations model to quantify the welfare effects of plans to postpone the depletion of the National Pension Fund. In order for the model to incorporate the rapidly changing demographic structure of Korea fully, we build and calibrate a model in transition directly. The model is considered suitable for analyzing the effects of demographic changes on the Korean economy and the effects of plans to change the National Pension System. According to a simulation of the model, to postpone the depletion of the National Pension Fund for 30 years, the premium rate must be increased to 18.3% from the current rate of 9%. By postponing the depletion of the fund reserve, young and future generations gain significantly at the expense of the older generations. The simulation results should be, however, interpreted as meaning that the current system is unjustifiably partial to the older generations. Moreover, given the current premium rate, it is desirable to strengthen the income-redistribution function of the National Pension System.

A Debate on the Reform Plan of Korean National Pension Fund Governance Structure - A Critique on the Appliance of the Agency Theory and a Democratic Alternative - (국민연금기금 지배구조 개편 논쟁에 관한 연구 - 대리인 이론 적용 비판과 민주주의적 대안의 모색 -)

  • Joo, Eun-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.63 no.1
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    • pp.343-368
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    • 2011
  • This Study aims to criticize national pension fund governance reform plan of Korea government and to search for an alternative direction of the reform. Firstly, I examine the theoretical basis of the Korean government reform plan by clarifying limits of application of agency theory to the public pension fund governance. Secondly, I try to reconstruct principles of the public pension fund governance with an alternative theoretical view emphasizing democracy principle. Thirdly, I evaluate the government reform plan with the basis of reconstructed pension fund governance principles. The government reform plan is expected to cause retrenchment of democracy and even political autonomy. It also would make worse the problem of pension fund autonomy from the financial market and the risk of the pension fund caused by market turbulence. Finally I suggest alternative direction of the pension fund governance reform emphasizing the democracy principle. This direction contains constructing co-determination structure of the state and the civil society, escalating controling power of the governing body to the administration body, setting the limits of the roles of the state, attaining of the autonomy from the financial market, strengthening organizational and social accountability.

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Examining the issues and development plans in relation to the introduction of the fund-based Korean occupational pension: In the members' perspective (기금형 퇴직연금 도입의 쟁점 및 개선방안 검토: 가입자의 관점에서)

  • Jung, Chang Lyul
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.151-174
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    • 2018
  • This study investigates the issues in relation to the introduction of the fund-based Korean occupational pension, examining the development plans in the members' perspective. The strong drive from Korean government to introduce the fund-based governance seems to be a sort of strategy to expand coverage in occupational pension. It is not logical that the introduction of the fund-based scheme is likely to cause increase in earning rate and, what is more important is to set the conditions to implement the active investment decision. Also, because the introduction of the fund-based scheme may increase possibility of insolvency, it is necessary to strengthen beneficiary protection or funding rule but, in the short term, it is better to focus on funding rule rather than protection scheme. The introduction of the fund-based scheme suggests the direction that members can actively participate in occupational pension, which means that it is possible to operate occupational pension in the direction of intent of the system.

The Relationship between the National Pension Service's Shareholding and Dividend Propensity: Focus on the Changes since the Stewardship Code. (국민연금의 지분율과 기업 배당성향 간의 관계: 스튜어드십 코드 도입 이후 변화를 중심으로)

  • Won, Sang-Hee;Chun, Bong-Geul
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.329-342
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    • 2021
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of investment by the National Pension Service, which has a high share as a single fund, on the dividend payout ratio. Design/methodology/approach - This study secured a share through DART of the Financial Supervisory Service and disclosure of the National Pension Service. We also used a fixed-effects model and 2SLS to analyze the data. Findings - First, it was found that there was a possibility of conflicting interests among shareholders concerning the company's dividend payment policy. Second, in the range of 3% to 4.9% of the National Pension Service shareholding, an additional increase in the holding ratio was found to have a positive (+) effect on the dividend rate. Third, after the introduction of the Stewardship Code, it was found that the increase in ownership of the fund had a positive (+) effect on the company's dividend payout ratio, regardless of the share ratio range. Moreover, the relationship between the fund ownership and the dividend payout ratio showed a clear positive relationship when free cash flow was high along investment opportunities were low. Research implications or Originality - First, This study included less than 5% of the share in the analysis. Second, We used the recent changes in fund shareholder activities. Third, We tested an instrumental variable to confirm the relationship between the National Pension Service share and the dividend ratio.

A Study on Public Rental Housing for Young Generation Utilizing an Alternative Investment of National Pension Fund: Using Apartment Trading Data on Seoul Metropolitan Area from 2011 to 2016 (국민연금기금의 대체투자를 통한 청년층 공공임대주택 공급 후보지 분석: 2011-2016년 수도권 아파트 거래 자료를 토대로)

  • Cho, SeongAh;Hong, Yeryun;Lee, Seongmin;Shin, Hyu-Seok
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.156-172
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    • 2018
  • Recently, Korea suffered serious social conflicts between generations due to population aging. Anxiety about depletion of the National Pension Fund is one of the social problem to young generation, because of the uncertainty that they will not able to receive the pension they paid. At the same time, due to the high housing rent in Seoul metropolitan area, the demand for housing welfare and supply of public rental housing for young generation was increased. There are some opinions about using National Pension Fund to supplying public rental houses in the society. In this research, we were concentrated on finding the suitable areas for the public rental house using National Pension Fund. First, verifying the validity of the investment using National Pension Fund for the public rental housing was done. And spatial statistical methods were applied to explore the suitable areas for the public rental housing in Seoul metro area. Finally, this study divided young people into three groups and analyzed ways to supply public rental housing for each group in proper areas by their demand. This research's ultimate goals are mitigating the conflicts between the generations and achieving both profitability and publicness of National Pension Fund.

The Exploratory Study on the Financial Soundness of Public Pension : The Case of National Pension Scheme (공적연금 재정건전성에 대한 탐색적 고찰 : 국민연금을 중심으로)

  • Kwon, Moon-Il
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.46
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    • pp.7-36
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    • 2001
  • The current benefit expenditure of National Pension Scheme is comparatively small, as it stands in the early stage in reference to the historical development. On the other hand, the current contribution rate of National Pension is set up beyond which is sufficient to cover the current benefit expenditure. Therefore, National Pension makes big surplus every year such that the size of accumulated fund increases very fast. Nevertheless, the apprehension of financial instability of National Pension prevails these days. If so, is it really well-grounded? In terms of the method of financing. public pension schemes of most of all nations in the world are based on pay-as you go or partial funding. Under these financing methods, financial soundness fundamentally depends on the power that the government is able to impose the burden which is equivalent to benefit expenditure and the attitude of the public which represents whether they will admit it or not. Under this perspective, the judgement of financial soundness of public pension can not be made arithmetically and technically only on the basis of the balance between receipts and expenditure but should be accomplished considering the very complex and diverse aspects. In these context, this paper defines what the financial soundness of public pension means specifically and presents the objective indices which help judge it, that is, implicit debt, cost rate, summarized cost rate, pension expenditure as percentage of GDP, and fund rate. Then, applying the indices, this paper analyzes the long-term financial situation of National Pension empirically and evaluates its financial soundness in exploratory perspective.

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Why were National Welfare Pension Act of 1973 and the National Pension Act of 1986 Legislated?: From the Viewpoint of Response to the Demographic Bonus (1973년 국민복지연금법과 1986년 국민연금법은 왜 제정되었는가?: 인구학적 보너스에 대한 대응이라는 시점)

  • Park, Yitaek;Lee, Hun-Chang
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.781-805
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    • 2015
  • The National Welfare Pension Act of 1973 and the National Pension Act of 1986 were legislated for an anticipative response to future population ageing. But the enforcement of these acts gained momentum as they became effective tools to realize the present potential demographic bonus. This article investigates the history related to the enactment of these two acts, focusing on these acts' role in raising funds managed by the government (National Investment Fund and National Housing Fund). This article shows the historical origin of full-dress debates on the sustainability of the National Pension Fund.

Expected Roles of the Korean Institutional Investors for listed S&M sized firms in the KSE (상장중소기업의 직접금융 활성화를 위한 기관투자가 역할)

  • Jun, Yang-jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.363-368
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    • 2004
  • The stocks of listed S&M sized firms in the KoreaStock Exchange(KSE) have been neglected to investors for long time in site of their good performences. The word "Neglected" means that the stocks of listed S&M sized firms in the KSE have fail to acquried liquidity. In the result, Listed S&M sized firms in the KSE have not financed equity by issuing stocks timely in the primary market. This problem has resulted in poor investment to their listed S&M sized firms in the KSE. The possible key to sovlve this problem is in the Institutional Investors, especially to the Pension fund. Korean Institutional Investors have lost their basic roles, that is, final supports to prevent the markets not to demolish. The Acts prventing Pension to invest to the stocks is to change to allowing to invest them in soon. this opportunity is good chance to solve the problems of poor liquidity of stocks of listed S&M sized firms in the KSE.

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Linear Programming Model and Forecasting for Financing Operation of civil Service Pension Fund (공무원 연금기금의 중장기전망과 재정운용 성현계확 모형)

  • 황현식;김지수
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 1986
  • The outlook for the Civil Service Pension (CSP) program in Korea indicates several problems. First, the balance of the benefit among the pension recipients is not well maintained. Second, the program is running out of funds as benefit increases exceed the growth in revenues. In this article, we analyze these problems by using linear programming model and discuss the alternatives. We propose an addition of the age limit to the benefit eligibility and a reconsideration of the government subsidy's level.

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Guaranteed Reserve Projections for the Guaranteed Interest Contract of Collective DC Funds (통합운영 DC의 이율보증 준비금 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Sung, Joo-Ho;Seo, Dong-Won;Lee, Dong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2019
  • This study suggests the level of guaranteed reserves that should be accumulated in order to provide guaranteed interest contracts to pension members. To calculate the guaranteed reserve, this study employs the method using variable insurance contracts with guaranteed interest options. The average return of three major pensions (national pension, private teacher's pension, civil servants pension) funds, from 2010 to 2018, is set as the target rate of return and then we establish 0%, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0% each as our minimum guaranteed returns for their respective guaranteed reserves. Our results firstly show that gaps between each guaranteed reserves are increasing as times goes on. Second, the probability of shortfall reserve is on the decrease as the pension fund is mature. Conclusively, a long-term conservative balance between risk and return is one of the best investing strategies in pension funds providing the guaranteed interest.