Pension expenditure determinants: the case of Portugal

Maria Teresa Garcia () and André Fernando Rodrigues Rocha da Silva ()
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André Fernando Rodrigues Rocha da Silva: Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Public Sector Economics, 2023, vol. 47, issue 2, 177-203

Abstract: Assessing pension expenditure determinants is crucial for the sustainability of public finances. This study aims to disentangle the impact of demographic and economic variables, such as ageing, productivity, and unemployment, on pension expenditure in Portugal. With the use of time-series data, from 1975 to 2014, statistical evidence was found of co-integration between unemployed people aged between 15 and 64 years old, apparent productivity of labour, the old age dependency ratio and pension expenditure as a share of gross domestic product. The use of a vector error correction model, with impulse-response functions and variance decomposition, showed that ageing has an almost insignificant impact in the long-run, when compared with unemployment and productivity.

Keywords: pension expenditure; ageing; productivity; unemployment; linear regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C51 C52 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.3326/pse.47.2.2

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