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Generational Accounting for France

By Ousmane Dore, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy

February 1, 1998

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Ousmane Dore, and Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy. Generational Accounting for France, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed July 12, 2025
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Summary

This paper presents the first set of generational accounts prepared for France, illustrating the impact on different generations of current policy settings. It was developed using age profiles of taxes and transfers drawn from a 1990 survey and recent demographic projections. The results reported suggest that if all living generations were protected from future policy changes, current policy rules would imply a net tax burden on future generations more than 1½ times as large as that on current newborn generations. If the assumption that young living generations are protected is relaxed, a large net-tax imbalance in favor of “babyboomers” emerges.

Subject: Aging, Discount rates, Financial services, Fiscal policy, Government consumption, Labor, National accounts, Pensions, Population and demographics

Keywords: Aging, Budget, Discount rates, Economics of the Elderly, Europe, Generational account, Government consumption, Government Expenditure, Net, Net tax, Payment, Payment burden, Pensions, Tax Incidence, Tax payment, Taxes decrease, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/014

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0141998

  • ISBN:

    9781451843095

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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