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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18000| Title: | Uncertain Retirement and the Effects of Social Insurance on Savings, Wealth, and Welfare |
| Keywords: | D91 E10 J20 ddc:330 |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
| Description: | We construct a Blanchard-style overlapping generations model consisting of long-lived individuals who have uninsurable idiosyncratic risk resulting from uncertain retirement periods and medical costs in retirement. Without social insurance, such individuals must save for these eventualities. We examine the impact of pay-as-you-go social insurance policies (public pensions and medicare coverage) on individual and aggregate consumption, saving, and wealth levels as well as wealth distribution. We also derive expressions for optimal (Pareto improving) social insurance policies. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18000 |
| Other Identifiers: | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 2007-2 1-41 doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2007-2 doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2007-2 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18000 ppn:530577208 RePEc:zbw:ifweej:5581 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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