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Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? Working Paper 2005-04

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  • Shinichi Nishiyama
  • Kent Smetters

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The economic literature shows that privatizing Social Security can improve labor supply incentives, but it can also reduce risk sharing when households face uninsurable risks. We simulate a stylized 50-percent privatization with transaction costs financed by consumption taxes and examined its impact on macroeconomic variables as well as on the welfare across generations and income classes. Our overlapping-generations model includes heterogeneous agents with elastic labor supply who face idiosyncratic earnings shocks and longevity uncertainty. The transition path is

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  • Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters, 2005. "Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? Working Paper 2005-04," Working Papers 16442, Congressional Budget Office.
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