Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30539 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2649
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines a static voting model for public pensions. The key premise is that families can internalize the cost and benefits of pay-as-you-go programs. A family realizes a net gain if its members collectively receive more in benefits in the current period than they pay in payroll taxes. Abstracting from differences in income, net benefits are positive if the family's retiree-worker ratio exceeds the national average. If a sufficient fraction of retirees have a suitable number of working-age relativesnot too few and not too manythen a majority of voters belongs to families with above average retiree-worker ratios.
Subjects: 
social security
public pensions
voting model
JEL: 
H55
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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