Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21185 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 328
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the appropriate therapy. In this debate, a number of proposals have been brought forward in particular in the last five years, which mainly consist in a (partial) transition to a funded pension system. Because such a transition is not a Pareto improvement, it is necessary to ask what can be the policy target that justifies such a redistributive move? The present paper tries to examine this question by identifying seven fallacies that are commonly made by advocates of such a transition.
Subjects: 
Social security
transition to funding
Pareto improvement
policy proposals
JEL: 
H55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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