Reform of the Canada Pension Plan : Analytical Considerations /

Like other transfer programs, a pay-as-you-go public pension system can significantly affect economic behavior and, hence, relative prices and macroeconomic aggregates. This paper illustrates some of these effects, which are important in weighing options for reforming public pensions, in the context...

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Hlavní autor: Kramer, Charles
Další autoři: Li, Yutong
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/141
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Shrnutí:Like other transfer programs, a pay-as-you-go public pension system can significantly affect economic behavior and, hence, relative prices and macroeconomic aggregates. This paper illustrates some of these effects, which are important in weighing options for reforming public pensions, in the context of a stylized model of the Canadian economy. It shows that introducing such a system can reduce aggregate saving, income, and wages and increase interest rates. It also shows that a significant part of the distortion can occur because benefits are not explicitly linked to contributions and that creating a linkage can reduce the distortions associated with the wage tax that funds plan contributions.
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