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| Title: | | Uncertain Retirement and the Effects of Social Insurance on Savings, Wealth, and Welfare  |
| Authors: | | Turnovsky, Stephen J. Bruce, Neil |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Citation: | | [Journal:] Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal [Volume:] 1 [Issue:] 2007-2 [Pages:] 1-41 [DOI/URN:] doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2007-2 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2007-2 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| JEL: | | D91 E10 J20 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2007-2 |
| Creative Commons License: | |  |
| Document Type: | | Article |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal - Journal Articles
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