Using a rich micro dataset drawn from administrative archives, we explore whether Social Security Wealth (SSW) is an important factor affecting the decision to become self-employed in Italy. We focus on the two main categories of self-employed professions covered by the Italian public pension...

This paper analyses the distribution of pensioners' income under different Social Security systems. The work focuses in particular on the recent reforms undertaken in the Italian Social Security system. Simulations, calibrated on Italian male dependent workers earnings histories, show that the...

This paper analyses the distribution of pensioners’ income under different Social Security systems. The work focuses in particular on the recent reforms undertaken in the Italian Social Security system. Simulations, calibrated on Italian male dependent workers earnings histories, show that the...

This paper focuses on alternative money's worth measures of the Italian (public) pension system for representative cohorts, considering both the present transition and the future steady state envisaged by recent reforms. Micro-based calculations of the aggregate budget effects induced by further...