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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Aydede, Yigita
Affiliations: [a] Department of Economics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3 Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: The Turkish public pension system is the most generous pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system in the OECD region, yet totally insolvent. The present paper is the first systematic investigation to measure this unsustainable generosity by calculating the aggregate Social Security wealth (SSW) series. The main objective of Social Security is to insure seniors against an uncertain life span. However, as PAYG systems around the world face increasing financial challenges due to aging populations and the probability of being a net loser rises for coming generations, the ability to obtain this objective is being questioned with growing public confusion: How does Social Security affect lifetime wealth? How does one calculate the financial terms of Social Security for households in different generations? Our simulations cover 1970 to 2003, and the results show that the SSW is the biggest part of household wealth in Turkey with declining implicit rates of return for different age cohorts, implying a significant unfairness among generations.
Keywords: Household wealth, Social Security wealth, intergenerational wealth transfers, internal rate of return of PAYG
DOI: 10.3233/JEM-2010-0329
Journal: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 85-126, 2010
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