Reform of the Canada Pension Plan: Analytical Considerations

October 1, 1997

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Charles Frederick Kramer, and Yutong Li. Reform of the Canada Pension Plan: Analytical Considerations, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

Like other transfer programs, a pay-as-you-go public pension system can significantly affect economic behavior and, hence, relative prices and macroeconomic aggregates. This paper illustrates some of these effects, which are important in weighing options for reforming public pensions, in the context of a stylized model of the Canadian economy. It shows that introducing such a system can reduce aggregate saving, income, and wages and increase interest rates. It also shows that a significant part of the distortion can occur because benefits are not explicitly linked to contributions and that creating a linkage can reduce the distortions associated with the wage tax that funds plan contributions.

Subject: Aging, Income, Labor, National accounts, Pensions, Population and demographics, Retirement, Wages

Keywords: Aging, Applied general equilibrium, Contribution rate, Earnings record, Income, Interest rate r, Labor, Pensions, Public pensions, Rate of return, Replacement rate, Retirement, Wage, Wage earnings, Wage growth, Wage income, Wage W, Wages, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

30
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1997/141
Stock No:

WPIEA1411997
ISBN:

9781451928327
ISSN:

1018-5941

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