Vandeninden, Frieda - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
-contributory) pensions in Europe. We use data from the household survey EU-SILC and focus on 17 countries. We simulate - in a static … framework - the introduction of two social pension schemes: universal and means tested social pensions. We see that the old … have few other income sources than pensions. On the opposite, it costs less. In fact, the means test reduces substantially …