characteristics of the average pensioner and in the parameters that describe how pensions are calculated in Spain as a function of …This paper develops a simple model that can be used to analyze the long-term sustainability of the contributive pension …

basis for a more general analysis that will be dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance …

sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare system in developed countries. Thsi paper constitutes Chapert 2.. Chapter 1 …

Since the early 90's, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses the sustainability of pensions in Belgium. Since a couple of … years, it uses a dynamic microsimulation model, MIDAS_BE, to assess the development of the adequacy of pensions. This …

sustainability and adequacy, which constitute a difficult trade-off facing the policy maker. The particular complexity of this issue …

-contributory) pensions in Europe. We use data from the household survey EU-SILC and focus on 17 countries. We simulate - in a static … framework - the introduction of two social pension schemes: universal and means tested social pensions. We see that the old … have few other income sources than pensions. On the opposite, it costs less. In fact, the means test reduces substantially …