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 …

show that the progressive labor tax can partially substitute for the redistribution in social security, thus reducing the …

requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality … redistribute large amounts of income without noticeably reducing inequality, others reduce inequality with less redistribution and …

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 …

system. While it can include a wide range of redistribution schemes depending on political choices, indexation rules should …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …