Paying for Pensions and Other Public Expenditures: Overtaxing our Children?Alexander Sebald () and
Neubourg,Chris,de
No 62, Research Memoranda from Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization Abstract: This paper argues that although current public pension schemes may shift the major financial burden to future generations, private and public transfers of wealth across generations offset this development. As a result the financing of existing social security and pension arrangements seems to be less problematic than commonly assumed.Policy models that assume there is no linkage between generations except through the state bear little resemblance to empirical reality. An accounting system is therefore needed which highlights the allocation of retirement costs among working and retired population as well as future generations, and includes the public as well as private ledger.Many of the aformentioned features are included in the well-established practice of ‘Generational Accounting’. This paper, however, will integrate private as well as public intergenerational transfers of wealth so as to account not only for the burden, which current generations leave, but also the wealth, which is passed on to future generations. Keywords: Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dgr:umamet:2003062 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Research Memoranda from Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization |
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