Compulsory Savings: Efficiency and Redistribution On the Interaction of Means Tested Basic Income and Public Pensions |
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Authors: | Robert Fenge Jakob Von Weizsäcker |
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Institution: | (1) CESifo, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany |
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Abstract: | In the presence of means tested basic income for old age, households will tend to reduce precautionary savings to an inefficiently low level. We explore how this might serve as a justification for a compulsory public pension system. In a representative agent framework with two income types, compulsory savings are found to be Pareto-improving up to a point. Beyond that point, increases in contribution rates simply result in increasingly regressive (implicit) taxation. Similar results are found for pay-as-you-go pensions. On the basis of our model we argue that the introduction of a funded pension component may help the German pension system to cope with demographic change more efficiently. |
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Keywords: | public pensions compulsory savings means tested basic income |
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