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Updating the debate on intergenerational fairness in pension reform
Author(s)	Kenneth Howse
Journal title	Social Policy & Administration, vol 41, no 1, February 2007
Pages	pp 50-64
Keywords	Pensions ; Private pensions ; Social policy ; Demography ; Ageing process.
Annotation	This article examines the arguments involved about the fairness or unfairness of government policies that would require current working generations to bear the full impact of their lower fertility on the costs of retirement pensions. The analysis is set in the context of a wider debate on the idea of generational fairness in assessing options for reform under conditions of population ageing. The article considers three questions: whether generational fairness poses a serious problem for the pay-as-you-go pension scheme; whether it is reasonable to assess the generational fairness of pension policy in isolation from other kinds of generational transfer; and whether there is a good case for redistribution from future generations in favour of the baby boom generation. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070411001 A
Classmark	JJ: JK: TM2: S8: BG
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