Japan & Sverige: En komparation av pensionssystemen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay was to compare the Swedish and the Japanese pension system and see if there were any big differences or similarities. I was looking for answers to such questions as if the systems were modelled with the problematic demographic situation in mind and also how these two countries had tried to manage the problems. Path dependency was also a central conception when I studied the reforms of the two pension systems. I mainly used literature and Internet sources in my study. There were many books on the Swedish pension system and the debates that had been going on since the 80's. The Japanese pension system was however a bit more difficult to grasp. I thought it was very complex at a start. But it did not take long though before I could recognize the pattern. Although I found that the two systems had many similarities. I also found that path dependency did not play as big a role as I had expected. If Sweden could change the pension system from defined benefit to defined contribution in 1991. History could not be that important to the shaping of a pension system.