The age profile of invisible transfers: the true size of asymmetry in inter-age reallocations. Abstract: We argue that the institutional composition of funding consumption in the two dependent sections of the lifecycle, childhood and old age, are different. To put it sharply, children are raised by their parents, the elderly rely on society. Since the reallocation of resources within households are not registered in National Accounts, the majority of the resources transferred to children are not visible in contrast to resources flowing to the elderly, which are almost entirely observed in public statistics. For our analysis we apply a recent extension of National Accounts, called the National Transfer Accounts, which include intrahousehold transfers; and a further, experimental extension, the National Time Transfer Accounts, which quantifies the value of time transferred among household members in the form of unpaid household labor. We show that about one third of the full transfer package flowing to children is registered in the National Accounts and another roughly which is the value of parents caring for their children, is made visible by the National Time Transfer Accounts. The corresponding shares in funding old age are quite different: nearly 90 percent is observed in public statistics and the two accounting extensions unfold only a bit more than 10 percent

Róbert Iván Gál, Endre Szabó and Lili Vargha ()
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Lili Vargha: Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

No 18, Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare from Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

Keywords: Unpaid household labor; intergenerational transfers; time use survey; National Transfer Accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, 2014, pages 1-45

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