Pay-as-you-go social security in a changing environment |
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Authors: | Robin Boadway Maurice Marchand Pierre Pestieau |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Queen's University, K7L 3N6 Kingston, Ontario, Canada;(2) CORE and IAG, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium;(3) Department of Economics, CORE and University of Liège, 7 Bd. du Rectorat, B-4000 Liège, Belgium |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we examine the optimal pay-as-you-go social security scheme which reallocates resources across generations
in a changing environment, that is, with fluctuations in population growth rates and in productivity levels. We use an overlapping
generations model along with a social welfare function consisting of the sum of generational utilities either unweighted or
weighted by population size and a discount factor. We show how intergenerational resource sharing can be used to improve social
welfare even though the extent of intergenerational redistribution is hampered by payroll tax deadweight losses in the spirit
of the optimal taxation literature. Also it appears that resource sharing is much more restricted in a closed economy that
in an open economy, which is not subject to a national resource constraint at each period of time.
This paper was presented at the 1990 ISPE-Conference on the Fiscal Implications of an Ageing Population, Vaalsbroek Castle,
Netherlands. The authors wish to thank the participants and particularly B. van Praag and W. Peters for their comments. They
also thank the two referees and Philippe Michel for very helpful comments and discussions. The financial support of CIM during
his sabbatical year is greatly acknowledged by the second author. |
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