Is the retirement age increase in Poland still necessary given the 1999 reform of the pension system? EmerytGRAPE analysis with the use of OLG model answers this question.
Inequality in an OLG economy with heterogeneous cohorts and pension systemsGRAPE
Marcin Bielecki, Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz
GRAPEjFAME & University of Warsaw & National Bank of Poland
International Workshop Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics and
Agents’ Heterogeneity, St. Petersburg, 2017
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Most reforms of the pension systems imply substantial adjustments in between cohort and within cohort redistribution. Fiscal policy, which accompanies these changes may counteract or reinforce this redistribution. In an OLG model with uncertainty, we show that fiscal closure is crucial for determining the welfare effects of the pension system reforms as well as political support for introducing it. We analyze two sets of fiscal adjustments: fiscally neutral adjustments in the pension system (via contribution rate or replacement rate) and balancing pension system by a combination of taxes and/or public debt. We find that in general, fiscally neutral pension system reforms are more likely to yield welfare gains. Many adjustments obtain sufficient political support despite yielding aggregate welfare losses and vice versa. We show the role of the insurance motive implicit in some pension systems for determining the welfare effects of the reform and point to fiscal closures which attenuate and reinforce the relevance of this motive for determining the welfare effects.
Starzenie się społeczeństwa w Polsce jest faktem i system ubezpieczeń społecznych musiał w związku z tym zostać zreformowany. W 1999 roku system emerytalny zdefiniowanego świadczenia został zmieniony na system zdefiniowanej składki - czy w tej sytuacji podniesienie wieku emerytalnego wciąż jest konieczne?
Inequality in an OLG economy with heterogeneous cohorts and pension systemsGRAPE
Marcin Bielecki, Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz
GRAPEjFAME & University of Warsaw & National Bank of Poland
International Workshop Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics and
Agents’ Heterogeneity, St. Petersburg, 2017
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Most reforms of the pension systems imply substantial adjustments in between cohort and within cohort redistribution. Fiscal policy, which accompanies these changes may counteract or reinforce this redistribution. In an OLG model with uncertainty, we show that fiscal closure is crucial for determining the welfare effects of the pension system reforms as well as political support for introducing it. We analyze two sets of fiscal adjustments: fiscally neutral adjustments in the pension system (via contribution rate or replacement rate) and balancing pension system by a combination of taxes and/or public debt. We find that in general, fiscally neutral pension system reforms are more likely to yield welfare gains. Many adjustments obtain sufficient political support despite yielding aggregate welfare losses and vice versa. We show the role of the insurance motive implicit in some pension systems for determining the welfare effects of the reform and point to fiscal closures which attenuate and reinforce the relevance of this motive for determining the welfare effects.
Starzenie się społeczeństwa w Polsce jest faktem i system ubezpieczeń społecznych musiał w związku z tym zostać zreformowany. W 1999 roku system emerytalny zdefiniowanego świadczenia został zmieniony na system zdefiniowanej składki - czy w tej sytuacji podniesienie wieku emerytalnego wciąż jest konieczne?
Evaluating welfare and economic effects of raised fertilityGRAPE
In the context of second demographic transition many countries consider pro-natalistic policies as viable solutions to the fiscal pressure stemming from longevity and declining fertility. However, increased number of births implies immediate economic costs and delayed economic gains. Moreover, quantification of these gains remains a challenge. We develop an overlapping generations model with family structure and utilize this model to quantify the effects in the increases in birth rates. We show the overall welfare and macroeconomic effects as well as distribution of these effects across cohorts. We also show how the distribution of children across families affects those estimations for a given birth rate.
Political (In)Stability of Pension System ReformsGRAPE
We analyze the political stability of welfare enhancing privatization of the social security. We consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, who vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme, i.e. “unprivatizing” the pension system. We show that even if abolishing the system reduces overall welfare, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that some ways of “unprivatizing” social security are always politically favored
Pension reform of 1999 Poland had important macroeconomic and wefare effects. We investigate if it can be perceived as efficient, and how the implications differ between cohorts.
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Most reforms of the pension systems imply substantial redistribution between cohorts and within cohort. Fiscal policy, which accompanies these changes may counteract or reinforce this redistribution. Moreover, the literature has argued that the insurance motive implicit in some pension systems plays a major role in determining the welfare effects of the reform: reforms otherwise improving welfare become detrimental to welfare once insurance motive is internalized. We show that this result is not universal, i.e. there exists a variety of fiscal closures which yield welfare gains and political support for a pension system reform. In an OLG model with uncertainty we analyze two sets of fiscal adjustments: fiscally neutral adjustments in the pension system (via contribution rate or replacement rate) and balancing pension system by a combination of taxes and/or public debt. We find that fiscally neutral pension system reforms are more likely to yield welfare gains. Many adjustments obtain sufficient political support despite yielding aggregate welfare losses and vice versa. Furthermore, we point to fiscal closures which attenuate and reinforce the relevance of the insurance motive in determining the welfare effects.
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Joanna Tyrowicz, Olivia Komada and Krzysztof Makarski
Group for Research in APplied Economics (GRAPE)
15th International Pension Workshop
Paris, May 2017
On the optimal introduction of a funded pension pillarGRAPE
Jan Woźnica, Marcin Bielecki, Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz Group for Research in APplied Economics (GRAPE)
15th International Pension Workshop
Paris, May 2017
Economic consequences of changing fertility. Insights from an OLG modelGRAPE
We want to use macro models to evaluate effects of differenet demographic scenarios
Demographics drives majority of the macroeconomic changes in the foreseeable future
Fiscal effects will be large and unavoidable but larger TFR can mitigate them
Strong (political) discussions about ways to prevent demographic catastrophe...
...but what is the adequate cost of family policy - even if successful?
Figures we obtain go beyond the simple calculations in Excel (forward looking agents)
Welfare effects of fiscal closures when implementing pension reformsGRAPE
This presentation covers an analysis on how do fiscal closures matter for the welfare effects of implementing the pension reforms. We develop an OLG model and calibrate it to the case of actual reform implemented in Poland.
Evaluating welfare and economic effects of raised fertilityGRAPE
In the context of second demographic transition many countries consider pro-natalistic policies as viable solutions to the fiscal pressure stemming from longevity and declining fertility. However, increased number of births implies immediate economic costs and delayed economic gains. Moreover, quantification of these gains remains a challenge. We develop an overlapping generations model with family structure and utilize this model to quantify the effects in the increases in birth rates. We show the overall welfare and macroeconomic effects as well as distribution of these effects across cohorts. We also show how the distribution of children across families affects those estimations for a given birth rate.
Political (In)Stability of Pension System ReformsGRAPE
We analyze the political stability of welfare enhancing privatization of the social security. We consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, who vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme, i.e. “unprivatizing” the pension system. We show that even if abolishing the system reduces overall welfare, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that some ways of “unprivatizing” social security are always politically favored
Pension reform of 1999 Poland had important macroeconomic and wefare effects. We investigate if it can be perceived as efficient, and how the implications differ between cohorts.
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Most reforms of the pension systems imply substantial redistribution between cohorts and within cohort. Fiscal policy, which accompanies these changes may counteract or reinforce this redistribution. Moreover, the literature has argued that the insurance motive implicit in some pension systems plays a major role in determining the welfare effects of the reform: reforms otherwise improving welfare become detrimental to welfare once insurance motive is internalized. We show that this result is not universal, i.e. there exists a variety of fiscal closures which yield welfare gains and political support for a pension system reform. In an OLG model with uncertainty we analyze two sets of fiscal adjustments: fiscally neutral adjustments in the pension system (via contribution rate or replacement rate) and balancing pension system by a combination of taxes and/or public debt. We find that fiscally neutral pension system reforms are more likely to yield welfare gains. Many adjustments obtain sufficient political support despite yielding aggregate welfare losses and vice versa. Furthermore, we point to fiscal closures which attenuate and reinforce the relevance of the insurance motive in determining the welfare effects.
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Joanna Tyrowicz, Olivia Komada and Krzysztof Makarski
Group for Research in APplied Economics (GRAPE)
15th International Pension Workshop
Paris, May 2017
On the optimal introduction of a funded pension pillarGRAPE
Jan Woźnica, Marcin Bielecki, Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz Group for Research in APplied Economics (GRAPE)
15th International Pension Workshop
Paris, May 2017
Economic consequences of changing fertility. Insights from an OLG modelGRAPE
We want to use macro models to evaluate effects of differenet demographic scenarios
Demographics drives majority of the macroeconomic changes in the foreseeable future
Fiscal effects will be large and unavoidable but larger TFR can mitigate them
Strong (political) discussions about ways to prevent demographic catastrophe...
...but what is the adequate cost of family policy - even if successful?
Figures we obtain go beyond the simple calculations in Excel (forward looking agents)
Welfare effects of fiscal closures when implementing pension reformsGRAPE
This presentation covers an analysis on how do fiscal closures matter for the welfare effects of implementing the pension reforms. We develop an OLG model and calibrate it to the case of actual reform implemented in Poland.
Nigdy nie jest za pózno? Ograniczenie przywilejów emerytalnych w PolsceGRAPE
Oliwia Komada Paweł Strzelecki Joanna Tyrowicz
GRAPE|FAME
Narodowy Bank Polski
Szkoła Główna Handlowa
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Konferencja Długoterminowe Oszczędzanie
Szkoła Główna Handlowa
czerwiec 2016
W poszukiwaniu optymalnego sposobu wprowadzenia lara kapitałowegoGRAPE
Joanna Tyrowicz i Krzysztof Makarski
oraz Marcin Bielecki, Marcin Waniek i Jan Woznica
Group for Research in Applied Economics
Konferencja D lugoterminowe Oszczedzanie - SGH - 2016
Pension (In)Stability of Social Security ReformGRAPE
In this paper we consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, who vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme (i.e. unprivatizing the pension system). We compare politically stable and politically unstable reforms and show that even if the funded system is overall welfare enhancing, the cohort distribution of benefits along the transition path turns unprivatizing social security politically favorable.
Political (In)Stability of Social Security ReformGRAPE
We analyze the political stability of welfare enhancing privatization of the social security. We consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, who vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme, i.e. “unprivatizing” the pension system. We show that even if abolishing the system reduces overall welfare, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that some ways of “unprivatizing” social security are always politically favored
Political (In)Stability of Social Security ReformGRAPE
We analyze the political stability of welfare enhancing privatization of the social security. We consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, who vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme, i.e. “unprivatizing” the pension system. We show that even if abolishing the system reduces overall welfare, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that some ways of “unprivatizing” social security are always politically favored
Political (in)stability of pension system reformOliwia Komada
We analyze the political stability of social security reforms that involve a funded pillar (a.k.a.privatizations of social security). We employ an overlapping generations model with intracohort heterogeneity. The (partial) privatization of social security is efficient in Kaldor-Hickssense and has political support. Subsequently, agents vote on abolishing the funded pillar, capturing the accumulated pension assets, and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme,i.e. \unprivatizing" the pension system. We show that even if such reform reduces welfare in the long run, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that \unprivatizing" social security is always politically preferred. We conclude that the correct assignment of property rights over retirement assets may be of crucial importance for
determining the stability of pensions systems with a funded pillar.
Political (In)Stability of Social Security ReformGRAPE
We analyze the political stability social security reforms which introduce a funded pillar (a.k.a. privatizations). We consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, which introduces a funded pillar. This reform is efficient in Kaldor-Hicks sense and has political support. Subsequently, agents vote on abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as-you-go scheme, i.e. “unprivatizing” the pension system. We show that even if abolishing the system reduces welfare in the long run, the distribution of benefits across cohorts along the transition path implies that “unprivatizing” social security is always politically favored. This suggests that property rights definition over retirement savings may be of crucial importance for determining the stability of retirement systems with a funded pillar.
Political (In)Stability of Social Security ReformGRAPE
In this paper we consider an economy populated by overlapping generations, which may decide about abolishing the funded system and replacing it with the pay-as- you-go scheme (i.e. unprivatizing the pension system). We compare politically stable and politically unstable reforms and show that even if the funded system is overall welfare enhancing, the cohort distribution of benefits along the transition path turns unprivatizing social security politically favorable.
Welfare effects of fiscal policy in reforming the pension systemGRAPE
Most reforms of the pension systems imply substantial redistribution between cohorts and within a cohort. Fiscal policy, which accompanies these changes may counteract or reinforce this redistribution. Moreover, the literature has argued that the insurance motive implicit in some pension systems plays a major role in determining the welfare eects of the reform: reforms otherwise improving welfare become detrimental to welfare once insurance motive is internalized. We show that this result is not universal, i.e. there exists a variety of scal closures which yield welfare gains and political support for a pension system reform. In an OLG model with uncertainty, we analyze two sets of fiscal adjustments: fiscally neutral adjustments in the pension system (via contribution rate or replacement rate) and balancing pension system by a combination of taxes and/or public debt. We find that fiscally neutral pension system reforms are more likely to yield welfare gains. Many adjustments obtain sufficient political support despite yielding aggregate welfare losses and vice versa. Furthermore, we point to fiscal closures which attenuate and reinforce the relevance of the insurance motive in determining the welfare effects.
Are incentivized old-age savings schemes effective under incomplete rationality?GRAPE
Financing consumption of the elderly in the face of the projected increase in life expectancy is a key challenge for economic policy. Moreover, standard structural models with fully rational agents suggest that about 50-60 percent of old-age consumption is financed with voluntary savings, even in the presence of a fairly generous public pension system. This is clearly inconsistent with either the data, or the alarming simulations of old-age poverty in the years to come. Old-age saving (OAS) schemes are widely used policy instruments to address this challenge, but structural evaluations of such instruments remain rare. We develop a framework with incompletely rational agents: lacking financial literacy and experiencing commitment difficulties. We study a broad selection of OAS schemes and find that they raise welfare of financially illiterate agents and to a lesser extent improve welfare of agents with a high degree of time inconsistency. They also reduce the incidence of poverty at old age. Unfortunately, these instruments are fiscally costly, induce considerable crowd-out and direct fiscal transfers mostly to those agents, who need it the least.
Inequalities in an OLG economy with heterogeneity within cohorts and an oblig...GRAPE
While the inequalities of endowments are widely recognized as areas of policy intervention, the dispersion in preferences may also imply inequalities of outcomes. In this paper, we analyze the inequalities in an OLG model with obligatory pension systems. We model both policy relevant pension systems (a defined benefit system — DB — and a transition from a DB to a defined contribution system, DC).
Fiscal incentives to pension savings -- are they efficient?GRAPE
Financing consumption of the elderly in the face of the projected increase in life expectancy is a key challenge for economic policy. Moreover, standard structural models with fully rational agents suggest that about 50-60 percent of old-age consumption is financed with voluntary savings, even in the presence of a fairly generous public pension system. This is clearly inconsistent with either the data, or the alarming simulations of old-age poverty in the years to come. Old-age saving (OAS) schemes are widely used policy instruments to address this challenge, but structural evaluations of such instruments remain rare. We develop a framework with incompletely rational agents: lacking financial literacy and experiencing commitment difficulties. We study a broad selection of OAS schemes and find that they raise welfare of financially illiterate agents and to a lesser extent improve welfare of agents with a high degree of time inconsistency. They also reduce the incidence of poverty at old age. Unfortunately, these instruments are fiscally costly, induce considerable crowd-out and direct fiscal transfers mostly to those agents, who need it the least.
Stimulating old-age savings under incomplete rationalityGRAPE
Fully rational agents respond to old-age savings incentives with complete crowing out, hence any effects of such incentives stem from second order general equilibrium adjustments. However, agents facing constraints in obtaining optimal savings profiles experience also first order effects, i.e. substantial changes to the lifetime profiles of assets accumulation. We develop a fully-fledged overlapping generations model with intra-cohort heterogeneity. In addition to fully rational agents, each generation has also agents with other types of preferences. In this economy we introduce a variety of tax incentivized old-age savings schemes with endogenous participation. We analyze macroeconomic and welfare effects of such instruments.
Efficiency versus insurance: The role for fiscal policy in social security pr...Oliwia Komada
Pension system reforms imply substantial redistribution between cohorts and within cohorts. They also implicitly affect the scope of risk sharing in societies. Linking pensions to individual incomes increases efficiency but reduces the insurance motive implicit in Beveridgean systems. The existing view in the literature argues that the insurance motive dominates the efficiency gains when evaluating the welfare effects. We show that this result is not universal: there exist ways to increase efficiency or compensate the loss of insurance, assuring welfare gains from pension system reform even in economies with uninsurable idiosyncratic income shocks. The fiscal closure, which necessarily accompanies the changes in the pension system, may boost efficiency and/or make up for lower insurance in the pension system. Indeed, fiscal closures inherently interact with the effects of pension system reform, counteracting or reinforcing the original effects. By analyzing a variety of fiscal closures, we reconcile our result with the earlier literature. We also study the political economy context and show that political support is feasible depending on the fiscal closure.
Stimulating old-age savings under incomplete rationalityGRAPE
Financing consumption of the elderly in the face of the projected increase in life expectancy is a key challenge for economic policy. Moreover, standard structural models with fully rational agents suggest that about 50-60 percent of old-age consumption is financed with voluntary savings, even in the presence of a fairly generous public pension system. This is clearly inconsistent with either the data, or the alarming simulations of old-age poverty in the years to come. Old-age saving (OAS) schemes are widely used policy instruments to address this challenge, but structural evaluations of such instruments remain rare. We develop a framework with incompletely rational agents: lacking financial literacy and experiencing commitment difficulties. We study a broad selection of OAS schemes and find that they raise welfare of financially illiterate agents and to a lesser extent improve welfare of agents with a high degree of time inconsistency. They also reduce the incidence of poverty at old age. Unfortunately, these instruments are fiscally costly, induce considerable crowd-out and direct fiscal transfers mostly to those agents, who need it the least.
Stimulating old-age savings under incomplete rationalityGRAPE
We study macroeconomic and welfare effects of old-age savings incentives (OAS incentives). Fully rational agents respond to OAS incentives with complete crowding out, hence any effects of such incentives stem from second order general equilibrium adjustments. Meanwhile, agents with incomplete rationality face constraints in obtaining optimal savings profiles, and thus experience also first order effects in presence of OAS incentives. We develop an overlapping generations model with intra-cohort behavioral heterogeneity. In addition to fully rational agents, each generation has also agents with variety of incompletely rational preferences. In this economy we introduce tax incentivized old-age savings schemes with endogenous participation.
Seminar: Gender Board Diversity through Ownership NetworksGRAPE
Seminar on gender diversity spillovers through ownership networks at FAME|GRAPE. Presenting novel research. Studies in economics and management using econometrics methods.
The European Unemployment Puzzle: implications from population agingGRAPE
We study the link between the evolving age structure of the working population and unemployment. We build a large new Keynesian OLG model with a realistic age structure, labor market frictions, sticky prices, and aggregate shocks. Once calibrated to the European economy, we quantify the extent to which demographic changes over the last three decades have contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate. Our findings yield important implications for the future evolution of unemployment given the anticipated further aging of the working population in Europe. We also quantify the implications for optimal monetary policy: lowering inflation volatility becomes less costly in terms of GDP and unemployment volatility, which hints that optimal monetary policy may be more hawkish in an aging society. Finally, our results also propose a partial reversal of the European-US unemployment puzzle due to the fact that the share of young workers is expected to remain robust in the US.
Revisiting gender board diversity and firm performanceGRAPE
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Demographic transition and the rise of wealth inequalityGRAPE
We study the contribution of rising longevity to the rise of wealth inequality in the U.S. over the last seventy years. We construct an OLG model with multiple sources of inequality, closely calibrated to the data. Our main finding is that improvements in old-age longevity explain about 30% of the observed rise in wealth inequality. This magnitude is similar to previously emphasized channels associated with income inequality and the tax system. The contribution of demographics is bound to raise wealth inequality further in the decades to come.
(Gender) tone at the top: the effect of board diversity on gender inequalityGRAPE
The research explores to what extent the presence of women on board affects gender inequality downstream. We find that increasing presence reduces gender inequality. To avoid reverse causality, we propose a new instrument: the share of household consumption in total output. We extend the analysis to recover the effect of a single woman on board (tokenism(
Gender board diversity spillovers and the public eyeGRAPE
A range of policy recommendations mandating gender board quotas is based on the idea that "women help women". We analyze potential gender diversity spillovers from supervisory to top managerial positions over three decades in Europe. Contrary to previous studies which worked with stock listed firms or were region locked, we use a large data base of roughly 2 000 000 firms. We find evidence that women do not help women in corporate Europe, unless the firm is stock listed. Only within public firms, going from no woman to at least one woman on supervisory position is associated with a 10-15% higher probability of appointing at least one woman to the executive position. This pattern aligns with various managerial theories, suggesting that external visibility influences corporate gender diversity practices. The study implies that diversity policies, while impactful in public firms, have limited
effectiveness in promoting gender diversity in corporate Europe.
Tone at the top: the effects of gender board diversity on gender wage inequal...GRAPE
We address the gender wage gap in Europe, focusing on the impact of female representation in executive and non-executive boards. We use a novel dataset to identify gender board diversity across European firms, which covers a comprehensive sample of private firms in addition to publicly listed ones. Our study spans three waves of the Structure of Earnings Survey, covering 26 countries and multiple industries. Despite low prevalence of female representation and the complex nature of gender wage inequality, our findings reveal a robust causal link: increased gender diversity significantly decreases the adjusted gender wage gap. We also demonstrate that to meaningfully impact gender wage gaps, the presence of a single female representative in leadership is insufficient.
Gender board diversity spillovers and the public eyeGRAPE
A range of policy recommendations mandating gender board quotas is based on the idea that "women help women". We analyze potential gender diversity spillovers from supervisory to top managerial positions over three decades in Europe. Contrary to previous studies which worked with stock listed firms or were region locked, we use a large data base of roughly 2 000 000 firms. We find evidence that women do not help women in corporate Europe, unless the firm is stock listed. Only within public firms, going from no woman to at least one woman on supervisory position is associated with a 10-15\% higher probability of appointing at least one woman to the executive position. This pattern aligns with the Public Eye Managerial Theory, suggesting that external visibility influences corporate gender diversity practices. The study implies that diversity policies, while impactful in public firms, have limited effectiveness in promoting gender diversity in corporate Europe.
The European Unemployment Puzzle: implications from population agingGRAPE
We study the link between the evolving age structure of the working population and unemployment. We build a large New Keynesian OLG model with a realistic age structure, labor market frictions, sticky prices, and aggregate shocks. Once calibrated to the European economies, we use this model to provide comparative statics across past and contemporaneous age structures of the working population. Thus, we quantify the extent to which the response of labor markets to adverse TFP shocks and monetary policy shocks becomes muted with the aging of the working population. Our findings have important policy implications for European labor markets and beyond. For example, the working population is expected to further age in Europe, whereas the share of young workers will remain robust in the US. Our results suggest a partial reversal of the European-US unemployment puzzle. Furthermore, with the aging population, lowering inflation volatility is less costly in terms of higher unemployment volatility. It suggests that optimal monetary policy should be more hawkish in the older society.
Evidence concerning inequality in ability to realize aspirations is prevalent: overall, in specialized segments of the labor market, in self-employment and high-aspirations environments. Empirical literature and public debate are full of case studies and comprehensive empirical studies documenting the paramount gap between successful individuals (typically ethnic majority men) and those who are less likely to “make it” (typically ethnic minority and women). So far the drivers of these disparities and their consequences have been studied much less intensively, due to methodological constraints and shortage of appropriate data. This project proposes significant innovations to overcome both types of barriers and push the frontier of the research agenda on equality in reaching aspirations.
Overall, project is interdisciplinary, combining four fields: management, economics, quantitative methods and psychology. An important feature of this project is that it offers a diversified methodological perspective, combining applied microeconometrics, as well as experimental methods.
Lecture slide titled Fraud Risk Mitigation, Webinar Lecture Delivered at the Society for West African Internal Audit Practitioners (SWAIAP) on Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
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1. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement
age?
(with Joanna Tyrowicz and Krzysztof Makarski)
Karolina Goraus
PhD Candidate
University of Warsaw
EEA-ESEM Congress
28 August 2014
2. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Table of contents
1 Motivation and insights from literature
2 Model setup
3 Calibration
4 Baseline and reform scenarios
5 Results
Welfare
Macroeconomic eects
3. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Motivation and insights from literature
Broad picture
A scienti
4. c project at the University of Warsaw
OLG modeling of the pension system reform in Poland
Polish pension reform of 1999
the original system was a DB PAYG scheme
then introduction of a three pillar system
1 notional de
5. ned contribution (NDC) scheme ) managed by Social
Insurance Fund (SIF)
2 fully funded DC (FDC) scheme ) managed by Open Pension Funds (OPFs)
3 voluntary pension schemes
6. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Motivation and insights from literature
Motivation
Current problems with pension systems:
increasing old-age dependency ratio
majority of pension systems fail to assure actuarial fairness
in most countries people tend to retire as early as legally allowed
Typical reform proposals
switching to individual accounts' systems
raising the social security contributions per worker
introducing general
8. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Motivation and insights from literature
Literature review
Two streams of literature:
1 Answering the question about optimal retirement age (Gruber and Wise
(2007), Galasso (2008), Heijdra and Romp (2009))
2 Comparing dierent pensions system reforms: increasing retirement age
vs. cut in bene
9. ts/privatization of the system/... (Auerbach et al. (1989),
Hviding and Marette (1998), Fehr (2000), Boersch-Supan and Ludwig
(2010), Vogel et al. (2012))
Fehr (2000)
Macroeconomic eects of retirement age increase may depend on the existing
relation between contributions and bene
10. ts
Remaining gaps in the literature
We increase retirement age...
how the macroeconomic eects dier between various pension systems?
what happens to the welfare of dierent generations?
11. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Motivation and insights from literature
Goals and expectations
Goal
Analyse macroeconomic and welfare implications of retirement age increase
under DB (de
16. rst steady state calibrated to re
ect Polish economy in 1999
Expectations
under DB: leisure #, taxes #, welfare?
under NDC: leisure #, pensions , welfare?
under FDC: leisure #, pensions , welfare?
What else makes the results less predictable? ! Labor supply adjustments,
general equilibrium eects...
17. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Model setup
1 Motivation and insights from literature
2 Model setup
3 Calibration
4 Baseline and reform scenarios
5 Results
Welfare
Macroeconomic eects
18. Does social security reform reduce gains from higher retirement age?
Model setup
Model structure - consumer I
is born at age J = 20 and lives up to J = 100
optimizes lifetime utility derived from leisure and consumption:
U0 =
XJ
j=1
j1j;t1+juj (cj;t1+j ; lj;t1+j ) (1)
where is the time discounting factor and j;t denotes the unconditional
probability of a household of having survived from birth to age j at time
period t (accidental bequests are spreaded equally to all cohorts).
The instantaneous utility function:
u(c; l) = log(c) + (1 ) log(1 l ), (2)
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Model setup
Model structure - consumer II
is paid a market clearing wage for labour supplied and receives market
clearing interest on private savings
is free to choose how much to work, but only until retirement age J
(forced to retire)
The budget constraint of agent j in period t is given by:
(1 + c;t )cj;t + sj;t + t = (1 l;t)(1
j;t )wj;t lj;t labor income (3)
+ (1 + rt(1 k;t ))sj;t1 capital income
+ (1 l;t )pj;t + bj;t pensions and bequests
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Model setup
Model structure - producer
Firms solve the following problem:
max
(Yt ;Kt ;Lt )
Yt wtLt (r k
t + d)Kt (4)
t (ztLt )1
s.t. Yt = K
Standard
21. rm optimization implies:
t (ztLt ) (there might be
the average market wage wt = (1 )K
heterogeneity between cohorts due to age-speci
22. c productivity,
wj;t = !jwt )
interest rate r k
t (ztLt )1 d, where d stands for depreciation
t = K1
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Model setup
Model structure - government
collects social security contributions and pays out pensions of DB and
NDC system
subsidyt =
t wtLt
XJ
j= J
pj;tj;tNtj (5)
collects taxes on earnings, interest and consumption + spends GDP
24. xed amount
of money on unproductive (but necessary) activities + services debt
Tt = l;t
(1
t )wtLt +
XJ
j= Jt
p
j;tj;tNtj
+
c;tct +k;t rt sj;t1
XJ
j=1
j;tNtj :
(6)
Gt + subsidy
t + rtDt1 = Tt + (Dt Dt1) + t
XJ
j=1
j;tNtj : (7)
wants to maintain long run debt/GDP ratio
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Calibration
1 Motivation and insights from literature
2 Model setup
3 Calibration
4 Baseline and reform scenarios
5 Results
Welfare
Macroeconomic eects
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Calibration
Calibration to replicate 1999 economy
Preference for leisure () chosen to match participation rate of 56.8%
Impatience () chosen to match interest rate of 7.4%
Replacement rate () chosen to match bene
28. ts/GDP ratio of 5%
Contributions rate ( ) chosen to match SIF de
29. cit/GDP ratio of 0.8%
Labor income tax (l ) set to 11% to match PIT/GDP ratio
Consumption tax (l ) set to match VAT/GDP ratio
Capital tax set de iure = de facto
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Calibration
Age-productivity pro
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Calibration
Final parameters
Table: Calibrated parameters
Age-productivity pro
33. le
! - D97 ! = 1
capital share 0.31 0.31
l labor tax 0.11 0.11
preference for leisure 0.578 0.526
discounting rate 0.998 0.979
d depreciation rate 0.045 0.045
total soc. security contr. 0.060 0.060
replacement rate 0.138 0.227
resulting
kt investment rate 21 21
r interest rate 7.4 7.4
Note: D97 denotes calibration with productivity pro
34. le according to Deaton
(1997) decomposition, ! = 1 denotes
at age productivity pro
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Calibration
Exogenous processes in the model
Demographics
Demographic projection until 2060, after that 80 years, and after that
new steady state
No of births (j=20) - from the projection, constant afterwards
Mortality rates - from the projection, constant afterwards
Productivity growth
Labor augmenting productivity parameter
Data historically, projection from AWG, after that new steady state,
1.7%
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Calibration
No of 20-year-olds arriving in the model in each period (left) and mortality
rates across time for a selected cohort
Source: EUROSTAT demographic forecast until 2060
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Calibration
Productivity growth
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Baseline and reform scenarios
1 Motivation and insights from literature
2 Model setup
3 Calibration
4 Baseline and reform scenarios
5 Results
Welfare
Macroeconomic eects
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Baseline and reform scenarios
Reform of the systems
Three experiments:
1 DB with
at retirement age ! DB with increasing retirement age
2 NDC with
at retirement age ! NDC with increasing retirement age
3 FDC with
at retirement age ! FDC with increasing retirement age
What is
at and what is increasing retirement age?
at: 60 years old increasing:
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Baseline and reform scenarios
Pension systems
De
43. t ! constructed by imposing a mandatory exogenous
contribution rate and an exogenous replacement rate
pDB
j;t =
(
twj1;t1; for j = Jt
DB
j1;t1; for j Jt
t pDB
(8)
De
44. ned Contribution ! constructed by imposing a mandatory exogenous
contribution rate and actuarially fair individual accounts
Notional
pNDC
j;t =
8
:
P Jt1
i=1
h
i
s=1(1+r I
ti+s1)
i
NDC
Jti;ti
w Jti;ti l Jti;ti
QJ
s= Jt
s;t
; for j = Jt
j1;t1; for j Jt
DB
t pNDC
(9)
Funded
pFDC
j;t =
8
:
P Jt1
i=1
h
i
s=1(1+rti+s1)
i
FDC
Jti;ti
w Jti;ti l Jti;ti
QJ
s= Jt
s;t
; for j = Jt
j1;t1; for j Jt
(1 + rt )pFDC
(10)
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Baseline and reform scenarios
Welfare analysis - like Nishiyama Smetters (2007)
What happens within each experiment?
1 Run the no policy change scenario ) baseline
2 Run the policy change scenario ) reform
3 For each cohort compare utility, compensate the losers from the winners
4 If net eect positive ) reform ecient
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Results
1 Motivation and insights from literature
2 Model setup
3 Calibration
4 Baseline and reform scenarios
5 Results
Welfare
Macroeconomic eects
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Results
Welfare
Is the reform ecient?
Net consumption equivalent from extending the retirement age:
Age-productivity pro
48. le DB transition to NDC transition to FDC
Deaton (1997) 9.88% 11.31% 11.81%
at 3.70% 4.41% 4.70%
Detailed cohort eects of extending the retirement age (age-productivity
pro
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Macroeconomic eects
Aggregated labor supply (in mio of individuals)
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Macroeconomic eects
Labor supply in the
52. nal steady state
Average and aggregate changes
Labor supply Labor supply with MERA increase
(no reform) j 60 j 60 Total
Average Average Aggregate Average Aggregate
(baseline=100%) (baseline=100%)
DB 63.2% 59.6% 94.4% 71.8% 113.7%
NDC 62.0% 58.8% 94.8% 72.3% 114.7%
FDC 61.7% 59.0% 95.5% 72.2% 115.4%
Labor supply over the life cycle
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Macroeconomic eects
Capital (per eective unit of labor)
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Macroeconomic eects
Pension system de
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Results
Macroeconomic eects
Discounted total pension payments per retiree (stationarized)
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Results
Macroeconomic eects
Lump-sum tax rate (extent of
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Results
Macroeconomic eects
Conclusions
extending the retirement age is universally welfare improving
this eect is strongly enhanced if productivity is increasing in age
agents adjust downwards the average labor supply, but the
aggregated supply increases
lower savings imply decrease in per capita capital and output
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Results
Macroeconomic eects
Questions or suggestions?
Thank you!