Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies

Giam Pietro Cipriani and Tamara Fioroni (tamara.fioroni@univr.it)
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Tamara Fioroni: University of Verona

No 14018, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal allocation, because agents do not take into account the externalities of fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first-best allocation by introducing a child allowance scheme and a subsidy to incentivize the labor supply of older workers. As an alternative to subsidizing the elderly labor supply, we show that the first-best allocation can also be achieved by controlling the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social optimum in a market economy could be a Pareto improvement.

Keywords: endogenous fertility; social security; PAYG pensions; endogenous retirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 H2 H55 J13 J18 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2021-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-ore and nep-pbe
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Published - published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2022, 21(3), 307-325.

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