Increasing Dependency Ratios, Pensions, and Tax Smoothing
September 1, 1998
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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
Pages:
16
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
129
Series:
Working Paper No. 1998/129
Stock No:
WPIEA1291998
ISBN:
9781451934861
ISSN:
1018-5941
