In this study, we analyse the actuarial features of the Italian pension system after the 1995 reform. We consider both the old defined benefit, the pro-rata and the new notional defined contribution pension rules applied to private sector employees born between 1945 and 2000. In the...

This work proposes a backtesting analysis that compares the Lee-Carter and the Cairns-Blake-Dowd mortality models, employing Italian data. The mortality data come from the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) database and span the period 1975-2014, over which we computed...

We analyze the probability that an isolated system (being a birth-cohort) remains unchanged along time, thus obtaining an experimental survival probability which perfectly matches with the theoretical results found in part I.

This paper presents measures of differential mortality in Italy by educational level. The results refer to the year 2001 because the census is the only source providing data about population by level of education; as to deaths the data are provided by death certificates. As often happens, in...

In this article we propose household scenarios in a selection of EU countries until 2031. Since household projections are derived from those of the population we have compared the results achieved applying the recent EUROSTAT projection: EUROPOP2004 (Baseline Scenario) and EUROPOP2008. To these...