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Coping with rational prodigals: A Theory of Social Security and Savings Subsidies

Title: Coping with rational prodigals: A Theory of Social Security and Savings Subsidies
Authors: Stefan Homburg; Jel-classification H H
Contributors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Source: http://www.wiwi.uni-hannover.de/forschung/diskussionspapiere/dp-293.pdf.
Publication Year: 2004
Collection: CiteSeerX
Subject Terms: Social Security; Pensions; Subsidies; Optimal Taxation
Description: The rational prodigality argument, which often serves to justify social security, is considered in a second-best tax framework with endogenous labor supply. Rational prodigality renders the familiar policies time inconsistent. We analyze time consistent policies and show that a wage tax suffices to rule out prodigality as a rational strategy. However, using savings subsidies, the solution can be improved upon. The subsidies are shown to be decreasing in income. A social security system with increasing contributions is needed in neither case. Revised version published in: Economica 73 (2006), pp. 47 ff.
Document Type: text
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Language: English
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Availability: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.129.6246; http://www.wiwi.uni-hannover.de/forschung/diskussionspapiere/dp-293.pdf
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Accession Number: edsbas.789E431A
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