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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-as-you-go Pension System: A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System

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It is shown that the net fiscal externality created by an additional member of a Pay-as-you-go- pension system that is endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions of this member. In Germany, this is an amount of about DM 175,000. The paper uses this information to design a hybrid funded system that avoids this externality and improves the public pension system under equity and efficiency considerations.

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Paper provided by CESifo GmbH in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number CESifo Working Paper No. 141.

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H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - General

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