Title: Heterogeneity in Longevity, Redistribution, and Pension Reform
Abstract: The gap in the life expectancy of the elderly across educational groups is high, and this will probably increase over the coming decades. In this article, we use a computable overlapping generations model economy to show that the long-term link between heterogeneity in longevity and education could translate into an implicit tax/subsidy on the expected lifetime benefits to lifetime payroll taxes ratio, with rates around 10 percent, and that such rates pervert redistributive objectives of pension systems. We then analyze some parametric changes aimed at restoring the progressiveness of these systems in the long run, and find that a higher minimum pension or changes in the pension benefit formula go a long way as a tools to restore the system’s long-term progressivity.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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