Political preferences and the aging of populations : political-economy explanations of pension reform
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Political preferences and the aging of populations : political-economy explanations of pension reform
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Springer VS, c2015
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212)
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Description
Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters' preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies' demographic development, the generosity of its existing public pension scheme and its electoral system. The author extensively reviews existing formal models of pension systems, discusses their merits and limitations, and develops a three-period overlapping generations model. The model's insights regarding individual reform preferences are then put into the context of different electoral systems, thus emphasizing the important role of electoral institutions in the aggregation of societal preferences. Finally, using cross-national survey data, logit and ordered-logit analyses tentatively confirm some of the model's main implications.
Table of Contents
Population Aging and its Economic and Financial Consequences.- Formal Models of Pension Systems.- Pension Preferences and Reform - A Political-Economy Model.- Econometric Analyses of Cross-National Survey Data on Individual Pension Reform Preferences.
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