Retirement Systems, Demography, Happiness and Welfare Redistribution

Barbara Ferrari (), Luigi Mittone and Marco Tecilla ()

No 808, CEEL Working Papers from Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia

Abstract: This research investigates whether an equity improvement within retirement-systems domain may positively influence demography, people�s happiness and their financial conditions. In particular, a fertility-boosting policy has been tested, acting on the contributory rate. This project has been carried out by using software simulation and with specific Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) methodology. Two virtual worlds have been created, in order to try to reproduce Italian society. In the first model, (W1), vertical equity has been improved, while in the second one, (W2), it is has not. Five further variants of these two worlds have been produced by altering some parameters, in order to test our hypothesis through several simulations. The research outcomes prove that an equity improvement can positively influence demographic trends, can increase the level of happiness in the society, and can grant a more homogeneous welfare redistribution.

Keywords: Retirement systems; demography; happiness; wealth distribution; equity; software simulation; Agent Based Computational Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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