The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification: A Generational Accounting Approach

Ilho Yoo, Alan Auerbach and Young Jun Chun

No 313, Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings from Econometric Society

Abstract: This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The Korean reunification’s fiscal impact appears much larger than that of German reunification, due to a wider gap in productivity between the two Koreas and North Korea’s much larger share of the unified country’s population. The projected large-scale fiscal burden on South Korea is attributable primarily to the rapid increase in social welfare expenditure for North Korean residents, rather than to the direct reconstruction cost of the North Korean economic system after the disintegration of its old economic regime

Keywords: Generational Accounts; Reunification Cost; Social Welfare Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H22 H55 H60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-11

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