Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

Seminar
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  • Date and time: Tuesday 20 June 2023, 2pm to 3pm
  • Location: In-person only
    A/D/271 (Alcuin East Wing)
  • Audience: Open to staff, students
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Speaker: Professor Mike Wickens (University of York)

Abstract:  Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties. These measures reveal that the pension spaces of advanced economies are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income taxation over the next thirty years. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Risk-equivalent pension reforms enhance welfare in the long run, particularly for rapidly ageing nations, but also entail non-negligible transitional costs.

Host: Macro & Finance Cluster

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