Recent changes in the pension system in Poland are assumed to affect the inequality in pensions and replacement rates (measured as a percentage of a worker's pre-retirement income that is paid out by a pension program upon retirement). The results of CASE study show that inequalities in pensions...

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the Polish old-age pension reform introduced in 1999. Following a benchmark Mincer earnings equation, and using a newly developed microsimulation model we project future pension benefits for males born in years 1969–1979. We find that...