By maintaining a lower minimum retirement age for women in Poland, we are acting to their disadvantage – says Prof. Marek Gora.
Economist Prof. Marek Góra believes that the retirement age should be the same for women and men. “There are no good arguments for differentiation. By maintaining a lower minimum retirement age for women in Poland, we are acting to their disadvantage,” said a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics in a text published by money.pl.
Currently, the minimum retirement age is 65 for men and 60 for women. “A universal pension system is one that covers everyone and does so for everyone on the same principles. Certain deviations from this principle that occur in practice – for example differences in retirement age – should be eliminated because they are socially ineffective,” the economist argues.
“Uneconomical and immoral”
Góra argues that the outrage over this approach is the result of a “misunderstanding”. ‘Thinking that the pension transfer is for something (for heavy or dangerous work, for particularly important or responsible work, etc.). However, this transfer is not for something, but for something. To be precise, to finance the consumption of people who, because the elderly can no longer finance it from their own income. So it is not compensation for the hardships of working life. Replacing wages with the promise of early retirement is not only economically pointless, but also immoral. we read.
“There are many arguments for actually making this age equal. The simplest of these is that in our cultural circle the vast majority of countries have this age equal or are on their way to equalizing it. This is not a strictly substantive argument, but an assumption that almost everyone else is unwise and motivated by bad motives is probably very weak,” the economist argues.
“If society believes that some elements of women’s lives need to be supported, then that should be done, but the earlier exclusion of women from active life has nothing to do with that. As a society, let us help better by guaranteeing the availability of various types of social services, the lack of which burdens women in particular, let us support them with transfers during their professional activity, for example, when this activity is hindered. Mountain. According to him, the argument is valid that early retirement can be reconciled with the role of the grandmother, which will increase the fertility rate.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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