The Political Economy of Redistributive Social Security /

Population aging puts significant pressure on social security systems that are based mainly on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) formula and determined by the political process in which both retirees and future retirees participate. This paper demonstrates that in an economic and demographic steady state, majo...

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Tác giả chính: Pestieau, Pierre
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/180
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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