We study interactions between progressive labor taxation and social security reform. Increasing longevity puts fiscal … strain that necessitates the social security reform. The current social security is redistributive, thus providing (at least … pensions to individual incomes reduces distortions associated with social security contributions, but incurs insurance loss. We …

framework; duly collecting social security contributions and tackling non-payment or the avoidance of social security …

transfer, and cash transfer conditional on reemployment training. We exploit Social Security data, including all registered …

welfare from participation in social security are offset by the interaction of higher steady-state interest rates and binding … exemption), we show that age-specific tax schemes can restore much of the potential gain from introducing social security … imperfections are frequently missing from such a framework. In this paper, we focus on the welfare gains from introducing social …

efficiency cost of social security (due to endogenous labor supply). This encourages voters who benefit from social security to …-country differences in social security contribution rates …We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social …