A SIMPLE MODEL OF TAX-FAVOURED RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (Az onkentes nyugdijrendszer egy egyszeru modellje)

• Authors: Simonovits Andras
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

To save myopic workers against themselves, the government introduces a mandatory system, but to help savers, it adds tax-favoured retirement accounts. Using a very simple model where benefits are proportional to contributions, the author compares three extreme systems: (i) the pure mandatory system, (ii) the asymmetric system, where only savers participate in the voluntary system, (iii) and the symmetric system, where both types participate proportionally to their wages. The symmetric voluntary system is welfare-superior to the asymmetric one, and to the pure mandatory system, which in turn are equivalent to each other.

Keywords

EN

INTER-TEMPORAL CONSUMER CHOICE; LIFE CYCLE MODELS & SAVING; SOCIAL SECURITY & PUBLIC PENSIONS

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Committee for Economic Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 851-865
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Simonovits Andras

• Andras Simonovits, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA078821