TY  - JOUR
TI  - Women and Superannuation in the 21st Century: Poverty or Plenty?
AU  - Kelly, Simon
AU  - Percival, Richard
AU  - Harding, Ann
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/08/31
SP  - 54-72
C1  - IJM 2023;16(2):54-72
DO  - 10.34196/ijm.00283
UR  - https://doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00283
AB  - The ageing of the population and its consequences is widely recognised as one of the major public policy challenges facing Australia, with likely future retirement incomes emerging as a key policy issue. In such debates, the future fortunes of women loom large. Will compulsory employer contributions to superannuation make a difference to the financial position of women in retirement? Will increased labour force participation result in a better retirement? What of the women who were relying on their partner’s superannuation but their marriage has ended in divorce? Models established to date do not provide the best tools to answer questions such as those above. In particular, they are unable to cope with the impact of divorce. With this in mind, NATSEM, with support from an Australian Research Council grant (A79906127), has added a superannuation module onto an existing microsimulation model. This new model allows detailed distributional analysis of future retirement incomes, including analysis of a wide range of policy settings and of the impact on future superannuation of behavioural changes. This paper presents the first, preliminary results using this model.
JF  - IJM
SN  - 1747-5864
PB  - International Journal of Microsimulation
ER  -