Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? Working Paper 2005-04
The economic literature shows that privatizing Social Security can improve labor supply incentives, but it can also reduce risk sharing when households face uninsurable risks. We simulate a stylized 50-percent privatization with transaction costs financed by consumption taxes and examined its impact on macroeconomic variables as well as on the welfare across generations and income classes. Our overlapping-generations model includes heterogeneous agents with elastic labor supply who face idiosyncratic earnings shocks and longevity uncertainty. The transition path is calculated, which allows us
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2005-04-01
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Authors: | Nishiyama, Shinichi ; Smetters, Kent |
Institutions: | Congressional Budget Office, United States Congress |
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