Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Daniela Mantovani (), Fotis Papadopoulos, Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

Center for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) from Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a set of common illustrative reforms for four countries selected on the basis of their diverse pension systems and patterns of poverty among the elderly: Denmark, Germany, Italy and the UK. The variations in fiscal and distributive effects on the one hand suggest that different paths for reform are necessary in order to achieve common objectives across countries, and on the other provide indications of the appropriate directions for reform in each case.

Keywords: Pensions; European Union; Microsimulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 H55 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 36
Date: 2005-03
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://155.185.68.2/CappPaper/Capp_p04.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective (2006)
Working Paper: Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective (2006)
Working Paper: Pension incomes in the European Union: policy reform strategies in comparative perspective (2005)
Working Paper: Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mod:cappmo:0004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Center for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) from Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi" Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sara Colombini ().