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A Role for Universal Pension? Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa

Maria Jouste; Pia Rattenhuber

dc.contributor.authorMaria Jouste
dc.contributor.authorPia Rattenhuber
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-28T14:12:16Z
dc.date.available2022-10-28T14:12:16Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://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.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Microsimulation Association
dc.titleA Role for Universal Pension? Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.microsimulation.org/IJM/V12_1/IJM_12_1_1.pdf
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2021042825549
dc.relation.volume12
dc.contributor.organizationfi=taloustiede|en=Economics|
dc.contributor.organization-code2608400
dc.converis.publication-id44067600
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/44067600
dc.format.pagerange51
dc.format.pagerange13
dc.identifier.jour-issn1747-5864
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorJouste, Maria
dc.okm.discipline511 Economicsen_GB
dc.okm.discipline511 Kansantaloustiedefi_FI
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeJournal article
dc.publisher.countryUnited Kingdomen_GB
dc.publisher.countryBritanniafi_FI
dc.publisher.country-codeGB
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Microsimulation
dc.relation.issue1
dc.year.issued2019


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