relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This …

In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension …-generational redistribution isolated from possible inter-generational redistribution. We use contribution records of approx. 100,000 German … individuals, who progressed into retirement in 2007-2015, to measure the level of intra-generational redistribution in the German …

"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …

pension benefit rule that is adopted. If this rule incorporates some implicit or explicit redistribution from healthy to … unhealthy individuals then the latter types are better off as a result of the pension system. In the absence of redistribution …