IMF Working Papers

Increasing Dependency Ratios, Pensions, and Tax Smoothing

By Vito Tanzi, Efraim Sadka

September 1, 1998

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Vito Tanzi, and Efraim Sadka. Increasing Dependency Ratios, Pensions, and Tax Smoothing, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

The implication of increasing dependency ratios for pay-as-you-go, defined-benefit pension programs are examined. Modifications aimed at smoothing contributions while maintaining benefits intact are analyzed for both open and closed economies.

Subject: Currencies, Expenditure, Labor, Money, Pension spending, Pensions, Retirement

Keywords: A pay-as-you-go, Capital import, Capital market, Capital market arbitrage, Capital share, Closed economy, Currencies, Defined-benefit pension, Defined-contribution pension, Dependency ratios, Exchange rate, Fully funded, Global, Pension program, Pension spending, Pensions, Production function, Rate of return, Real exchange rate risk, Retirement, Tax hike, Tax smoothing, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    16

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/129

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1291998

  • ISBN:

    9781451934861

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941