Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2863
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 538
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper examines the following pension reform strategy that aims to defuse the pension time-bomb without giving rise to intergenerational conflict. Let people with rights to public pensions have the option of using a portion of their potential pensions to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The policy is entirely voluntary; only those older workers and those employers who wish to avail themselves of this option will do so. The older workers retain the right to draw their public pensions and the employers have the right not to employ them. In effect, the policy involves taking some of the funds that would have financed public pensions and using them to provide employment subsidies. When a person takes advantage of the PTP over a given period of time, he loses his pension rights over that span and gains improved employment opportunities instead.
Subjects: 
employment subsidies
early retirement
inter-generational redistribution
pensions
JEL: 
H1
H2
H6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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