dc.contributor.author | Maria Jouste | |
dc.contributor.author | Pia Rattenhuber | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-28T14:12:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-28T14:12:16Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/169980 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for
Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa to analyse ex ante the expansion of a universal old-age
pension in a static setting. Universal pensions would significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings where no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as in Ghana and Tanzania). If means-tested
old-age pensions exist and shall be maintained, universal pensions as a top up scheme only make a
difference for the income distribution if the existing schemes do not reach the entire vulnerable population such as in Ecuador. Costs for the proposed schemes are substantial. <br /></p> | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | International Microsimulation Association | |
dc.title | A Role for Universal Pension? Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa | |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.microsimulation.org/IJM/V12_1/IJM_12_1_1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042825549 | |
dc.relation.volume | 12 | |
dc.contributor.organization | fi=taloustiede|en=Economics| | |
dc.contributor.organization-code | 2608400 | |
dc.converis.publication-id | 44067600 | |
dc.converis.url | https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/44067600 | |
dc.format.pagerange | 51 | |
dc.format.pagerange | 13 | |
dc.identifier.jour-issn | 1747-5864 | |
dc.okm.affiliatedauthor | Jouste, Maria | |
dc.okm.discipline | 511 Economics | en_GB |
dc.okm.discipline | 511 Kansantaloustiede | fi_FI |
dc.okm.internationalcopublication | not an international co-publication | |
dc.okm.internationality | International publication | |
dc.okm.type | Journal article | |
dc.publisher.country | United Kingdom | en_GB |
dc.publisher.country | Britannia | fi_FI |
dc.publisher.country-code | GB | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | International Journal of Microsimulation | |
dc.relation.issue | 1 | |
dc.year.issued | 2019 | |