Arbeitspapier

Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform

Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a Choice Experiment to investigate individual preferences for an alternative state pension scheme. Answers are used to estimate a life-cycle utility model of preferences towards pensions' parameters. Results suggest that individuals' value orientation is an important determinant of their preferences. Respondents' income determines which degree of redistribution is preferred. However, preferences according to age are in contradiction with what is suggested in theory.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2770

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
population ageing
pension system reform
redistribution
stated preferences
Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung
Rentenreform
Einkommensumverteilung
Offenbarte Präferenzen
Alternde Bevölkerung
Lebenszyklus
Irland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fourati, Yosr Abid
O'Donoghue, Cathal
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fourati, Yosr Abid
  • O'Donoghue, Cathal
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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