How Progressive is the Czech Pension Security?

Stanislav Klazar and Barbora Slintáková

Prague Economic Papers, 2012, vol. 2012, issue 3, 309-327

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine the progressivity of the pension security in the Czech Republic using an intragenerational longitudinal approach. Since there is no available Czech panel data we modelled pseudo-panel data on lifetime earnings of employees on the basis of real crosssectional data. Then the present values of lifetime contributions paid to and lifetime pensions received from the system were derived from the simulated lifetime earnings. The analysis revealed that the Czech pension security redistributes the funds from the higher-income participants to the lower-income ones and from men to women. Furthermore the Gini coefficients confirmed that the scheme reduces income inequality. The results proved that the solidarity principle built in the pension formula prevails over the benefit principle, which is also present in the formula, when the benefit component is relatively more favourable for the rich employees because of the shape of the lifetime earnings function.

Keywords: social security; progressivity; old age pensions; redistribution; lifetime incidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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