Axel Börsch-Supan (Mannheim Institute for the Economics of Aging and NBER,)
Abstract
This paper provides a critical review of the pension reform strategy that turns defined benefits (DB) public pay-as-you-go-systems into notional defined contribution (NDC) systems. We show that properly designed NDC public pension systems contain powerful economic and political mechanisms that may facilitate pension reform, but that the distinction between public NDC and DB systems is more ambiguous than usually claimed. (JEL: H55, J14, J26) Copyright (c) 2005 The European Economic Association.
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Volume (Year): 3 (2005) Issue (Month): 2-3 (04/05) Pages: 458-465 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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