von Weizsäcker, Robert K. (1995) Public pension reform, demographics and inequality. DARP (11). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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Starting from a simple, descriptive model of individual income, an explicit link between the age composition of a population and the personal distribution of incomes is established. Demographic effects on income inequality are derived. Next, a pay-as-you-go financed state pension system is introduced. The resulting government budget constraint entails interrelations between fiscal and demographic impact on the distribution. This is shown not only to change, but in some cases even to reverse the distributional incidence of an aging population. Several policy conflicts arise. The point is re-emphasized by an analysis of the German Pension Reform Act of 1992. The study reveals that the design of the pension formula decisively drives the relation between demographics and inequality.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 1995 Robert K. von Weizsäcker |
| Divisions: | STICERD |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2008 15:12 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6618 |
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