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The Intragenerational Redistributive Effects of Unfunded Pension Programs

By Luis M. Cubeddu

December 1, 1998

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Luis M. Cubeddu The Intragenerational Redistributive Effects of Unfunded Pension Programs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the intracohort redistributive elements of the U.S. social security system in the context of a computable general equilibrium model. It determines how the well-being of individuals that differ by gender, race, and education is affected by the government’s social security policy. Differences in life expectancy and labor productivity translate into differences in capital accumulation and labor supply distortions that are responsible for the observed welfare difference between individuals of the same age cohort.

Subject: Aging, Education, Financial institutions, Health, Labor, Population and demographics, Securities, Wages

Keywords: Aging, Annuity market, Average earnings, Benchmark economy, Calibration procedure, Consumer durables, Demographics, Earnings profile, Expected return, Heterogeneity, Production function, Productivity peak, Rate of return, Redistribution, Securities, Sensitivity analysis, Share parameter, Simulation, Social Security, Wages, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    34

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/180

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1801998

  • ISBN:

    9781451859089

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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