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Endogenous Retirement and Public Pension System Reform in Spain

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  • Alfonso R Sánchez-Martín

    () (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

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All around the world, population aging has spurred developed countries to reform their PAYG pension systems. In particular, delaying legal retirement ages and reducing the generosity of pension benefits have been widely implemented changes. In this paper we assess how successful those policies can be in the case of the Spanish economy, and compare with the results obtained by the already implemented reforms (1997 and 2001). This evaluation is accomplished in a heterogeneous-agents, applied general equilibrium model where individuals can adjust their retirement ages in response to changes in pension rules. We check the ability of the model to reproduce the basic stylized facts of retirement behavior (specially the pattern of early retirement induced by minimum pensions). We then use to model to explore the impact of pension reforms. We find that already implemented changes actually increase the implicit liabilities of the system, while delaying the legal retirement age to 68 may roughly halve the size of the current pension debt.

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Paper provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 08.06.

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Length: 31 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2008
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Handle: RePEc:pab:wpaper:08.06

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Keywords: Pension System Reform; Applied General Equilibrium; Retirement.;

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