- SOCIAL SECURITY AND POLITICAL ELECTION IN RETIREMENT AGE

Francisco Lagos and Juan Antonio Lacomba
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Juan Antonio Lacomba: Universidad de Alicante

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: We focus on the consequences of a voting process on the retirement age when agents have different ages and wages. We have two groups: retired people and workers. Once the retirement age is determined through a voting process, we verify if that age will keep the same popular support in future elections. At the end, we do an exercise of comparative static in order to analyze how the retirement age is conditioned by the redistributive level of the Social Security System. In this way, we also study how elected retirement age is affected by the wage distribution.

Keywords: Social security; retirement age; median voter. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2000-06
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