Friday, 3 January 2020

Pensions and intra-generational equity: A proposed solution

a column by Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Gylfi Zoega for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Everyone contributes equally to government-run pension schemes, but not everyone will spend the same number of years in retirement – blue-collar workers, for instance, do not live as long as their white-collar counterparts.

Rather than pooling the resources of a heterogeneous group of workers, this column proposes that each worker receive a lump sum at a certain age, which they can then give to an occupational pension fund better informed about the life expectancy of its own participants.

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