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On the Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform

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Mark Huggett (Centro de Investigacion Economica (CIE), Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM))
Gustavo Ventura (Economics Department,University of Western Ontario)

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How will the distribution of welfare, consumption and leisure across households be affected by social security reform? This paper addresses this question for social security reforms with a two-tier structure by comparing steady states under a realistic version of the current US system and under the two-tier system. The first tier is a mandatory, defined-contribution pension offering a retirement annuity proportional to the value of taxes paid, whereas the second tier guarantees a minimum retirement income. Our findings, which are summarized in the introduction, do not in general favor the implementation of pay-as-you go versions of the two-tier system for the US economy.

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Paper provided by Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM in its series Working Papers with number 9801.

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Date of creation: Jan 1998
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Handle: RePEc:cie:wpaper:9801

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