 Social security and family supportMarie-Louise Leroux and Pierre Pestieau No 2011045, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Abstract: This paper shows how the role of the market, the state and the family in providing financial support at old age has evolved over time with changes in factors such as the reliability and the effectiveness of family support, the rate of interest, the cost of public funds and earning inequality. We model a society in which agents with different productivity are asked to vote over the existence of a Beveridgian pension system. We show that when children assistance is certain and large, agents may rely exclusively on family to finance old-age consumption and prefer to vote for a zero tax rate. Only if income inequalities are very large, a majority will be in favor of a pension system. However, when the size and the likelihood of family generosity decreases, a pension system is more likely to emerge. In that case, agents supplement children assistance with pension benefits. A pension system is also more likely to emerge when the cost of public fund is small and the return from private savings is high. Keywords: social security; old-age security; family solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:2011045 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC. |
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