Improving intergenerational equity in New Zealand

Abstract

As the profound and enduring ageing of the population occurs in New Zealand and most of the rest of the world, consideration of inter-generational equity is increasingly urgent. Yet in New Zealand, little is being done, and where attention is being given, the focus is narrow and largely medical. The Retirement Policy and Research Centre is therefore pleased to publish this Working Paper, ‘Intergenerational equity: policy and provision in New Zealand’. It builds on a presentation by the Retirement Policy and Research Centre’s M.Claire Dale at the 25th Annual Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers 6 – 7 July 2017, hosted by CEPAR and the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW; and the workshop in Hong Kong in April 2016 with Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partners in an ‘intergenerational equity’ research project, led by Eliza Lai-Yi Wong (Principal Investigator). The University of Auckland WUN collaborators were Kathryn Peri, Gary Cheung and Roy Lay-yee. Other collaborators were E.K. Yeoh, Roger Chung and Janice Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Christopher Etherton-Beer, Loretta Baldassa and Adele Millard (University of Western Australia), Bettina HusebØ (University of Bergen), Sweet Fun Wong (Alexandra Health System Singapore), Praveen Thokala (Sheffield University), and Chek Hooi Wong (Tokyo University).