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La Loi RVER a-t-elle augmenté l’épargne des travailleurs au Québec?

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  • David Boisclair
  • Xavier Dufour-Simard
  • Pierre-Carl Michaud

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We analyze the effect on savings in registered vehicles—including the VRSP itself—of the Voluntary Retirement Savings Plans Act (VRSP) Act, adopted in 2014, and the employer mandate to offer a workplace retirement savings vehicle. We use two identification strategies: a difference-in-differences approach (province × year) and a triple-difference approach (province × public sector × year), both applied to tax return data from the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD). Our results suggest a gradual increase—of up to 4 percentage points—in the share of taxpayers contributing to a registered vehicle as a result of the law’s implementation. We estimate that the contribution rate to these vehicles, as a share of wages, rose by up to 0.6 percentage points. We find a net average increase of 0.4 percentage points in registered savings between 2017 and 2022 attributable to the VRSP Act, with gains concentrated among higher-income workers. We discuss potentialimprovements to better encourage saving among workers who need to save for retirement beyond the public plans. Nous analysons l’effet sur l’épargne dans des véhicules enregistrés – incluant le RVER lui- même – de la Loi sur les régimes volontaires d’épargne-retraite (Loi RVER), adoptée en 2014, et de l’obligation pour les employeurs d’offrir un véhicule d’épargne retraite. Nous utilisons deux stratégies d’identification : une approche en double différence (province x année) et une en triple différence (province x secteur public x année), toutes deux appliquées aux données sur les déclarations fiscales de la Base de données administratives longitudinales (DAL). Nos résultats suggèrent une augmentation graduelle, allant jusqu’à 4 points de pourcentage, de la proportion de contribuables ayant cotisé à un véhicule enregistré en raison de la mise en œuvre de la loi. Nous estimons que le taux d’épargne vers ces véhicules, en pourcentage du salaire, a connu une augmentation allant jusqu’à 0,6 point de pourcentage. Au net, nous estimons une hausse moyenne de l’épargne enregistrée de 0,4 point de pourcentage entre 2017 et 2022 des suites de la mise en place de la Loi RVER, hausse qui semble concentrée chez les travailleurs à revenu plus élevé. Nous discutons de pistes d’améliorations possibles dans le but de favoriser l’épargne chez les travailleurs ayant un besoin d’épargner pour la retraite au-delà des régimes publics.

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  • David Boisclair & Xavier Dufour-Simard & Pierre-Carl Michaud, 2025. "La Loi RVER a-t-elle augmenté l’épargne des travailleurs au Québec?," CIRANO Working Papers 2025s-31, CIRANO.
  • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirwor:2025s-31
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    JEL classification:

    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • G53 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Financial Literacy
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions

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