This paper studies the impact of pension reduction on the housing price and wealth distribution in China. We first set up a simple model, conceptually predicting that a pension reduction will boost the housing price and reduce housing wealth inequality. To get a full picture of the impact of...

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. It is still largely an open question what people‘s preferences are regarding redistribution - both through pensions schemes as well as more generally. It would seem that economists have little to say about this question, as...

This paper analyses the general equilibrium implications of reforming pay-as-you-go pension systems in an economy with heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital skill complementarity. It shows that increasing funding delivers in the long run higher physical and human capital and...

We propose a general analytical framework to model the redistributive features of alternative pension systems when individuals face ex ante differences in mortality. Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many...

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by...

Mit einem Steuer-Transfer-Modell, das die Entwicklung seit 1950 abbildet, werden verschiedene Fragestellungen inter- und intragenerativer Umverteilung aus den Bereichen der Bildungsökonomie, der Familienpolitik und der Alterssicherung bearbeitet. Anders als in üblichen Ansätzen werden dabei...

Gerade in jüngster Zeit rückt die Analyse der politischen Risiken, denen die gesetzlichen Alterssicherungssysteme unterliegen, in den Fokus der aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Mit dieser Arbeit quantifiziert der Autor das politische Risiko der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung über die...