Population Aging, Policy Reforms, and Lifetime Net Tax Rate in Japan: A Generational Accounting Approach

Manabu Shimasawa, Kazumasa Oguro and Minoru Masujima
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Manabu Shimasawa: Senior Researcher National Institute for Research Advancement
Minoru Masujima: Director for Macroeconomic Analysis Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Discussion papers from Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan

Abstract: We employed the Generational Accounting model in estimating the generation-specific lifetime (both past and the future) benefits/burdens and income and evaluating their values as of 2010, thus estimating the lifetime net burden ratio (= lifetime net burden/lifetime income). As a result, the following points were elucidated: 1) Among the current living generations, the lifetime net burden ratio of the 0-year-old generation is about 25 percentage points higher than that of the current 90-year-old generation; 2) The lifetime net burden ratio of the future generations is about 31 percentage points higher than that of the 0-year-old generation; 3) The net burden of the current generations would have to be increased in order to narrow the generational gap between the current generations and the future generations, which would inevitably lead to an expansion of the intragenerational gap of the current generations; and 4) In order to prevent conflict of interest between the current generations, in particular the younger generations and future generations, and at the same time, narrow the intergenerational gap, it is desirable to increase the income of the current generations, in particular that of the younger generations, by achieving a high economic growth rate and implementing macroeconomic policy management that would inhibit increase in the risk premium included in the interest rate.

Keywords: Generational Accounting; falling birthrates and aging population; fiscal sustainability; government debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 E62 H61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2014-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-age, nep-mac and nep-pbe
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