down. Depending on the relative returns from public pensions and private savings as well as on the elasticity of compliance … rate is more likely to be positive when the median income is low and when the return from public pensions dominates that of … private savings. The level of the Bismarkian pillar will now be chosen so as to account for increased political support, for …

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The … design of public pensions cannot be separated from the one of taxation. Regarding private pensions, the key issue is whether …

mandatory pensions. Conversely, optimizing models of pension design typically do not include annual taxation of labor and … Atkinson-Stiglitz and Chamley-Judd results, this article raises the issue of tax-favored retirement savings, a topic where the …

savings and, thus, income and welfare, in a closed economy with unfunded pension system based on defined contributions. …

pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both …