Intergenerational Fairness During Demographic Transition

Matthias Heidler and Jasmin Häcker

No 121, Discussion Papers from Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Abstract: Implementing a fairness component into a standard overlapping-generations model and allowing young individuals to vote on their own pension payments, we show that they adapt the pay-as-you-go pension scheme to future demographic changes. In particular, we explain why young generations cut their retirement benefits thus partially phasing out social security during a fertility decline. Carrying out a simulation, we furthermore calculate the costs of implementing fairness into utility. From the viewpoint of an individual, these costs are reduced by equalizing generational accounts. Hence, under certain conditions policy actions based on generational accounts may be compatible with intertemporal welfare maximization. --

Keywords: intergenerational fairness; social security; demography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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