Das Ziel der Arbeit ist eine Diskussion der Konsequenzen der Transformation auf die Wohlfahrt der zum Zeitpunkt der Systemumwandlung und in den nachfolgenden Perioden lebenden Haushalte. Darauf aufbauend erfolgt eine Analyse der Folgewirkungen von Kompensationszahlungen an die Verlierer der...

This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady state may result in lower levels of...

This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady state may result in lower levels of...

This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady state may result in lower levels of...

A well‐established result in the literature is that Social Security reduces steady state welfare in a standard life cycle model. However, less is known about the historical quantitative effects of the program on agents who were alive when the program was adopted. In a computational life cycle...