Social security and growth in an agin economy: the case of actuarial fairness

No 2012-18, Documents de Travail de l'OFCE from Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE)

Abstract: In many European countries, due to population aging, the switch from conventional unfunded public pension systems to notional systems character- ized by individual accounts is in debate. In this article, we develop an OLG model in which endogenous growth is based on an accumulation of knowledge driven by the proportion of skilled workers and the time they have spent to be trained. In such a framework, we show that conventional pension systems, contrary to notional systems, can enhance economic growth by linking bene- ?ts only to partial earnings history. Thus, considering economic growth, the optimal adjustment to aging could consist in increasing the size of existing retirement systems rather than switching to notional systems.

Keywords: social security; intertemporal choice; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 E24 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dge and nep-fdg
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