Skip to Main Navigation

Economic efficiency : Minimizing the pension system's distortions of individual choices (English)

This briefing note on economic efficiency explores indicators related to the incentive to work. The first part looks at the retirement decision. There is now a mountain of evidence showing that retirement behavior responds strongly to the incentives embedded in the pension system. Equally, these incentives matter for equity reasons: people who work more and contribute more should have higher pensions. Yet many countries' pension systems continue to...
See More

DETAILS

DOWNLOADS

COMPLETE REPORT

Official version of document (may contain signatures, etc)


Citation

Whitehouse,Edward R..

Economic efficiency : Minimizing the pension system's distortions of individual choices (English). World Bank pension indicators and database briefing no. 7 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936951468330910269

This document is being processed or is not available.