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 …

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 …

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole … inequality. Second, we find that this result is driven largely by the lack of redistribution across the middle and upper part of … distribution. Third, in cases where redistribution does occur, we find it is not efficiently targeted: many high income households …

the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …

optimal redistribution and social protection policies are in place, globalization necessarily improves social welfare. …