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Capital accumulation under a pay‐as‐you‐go social security: The influence of labour growth

Michael Bräuninger (Universität der Bundesweht, Hamburg, Germany)

International Journal of Social Economics

ISSN: 0306-8293

Article publication date: 1 October 1996

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Abstract

Deals with the influence of the labour growth rate on the capital per head in an economy with a pay‐as‐you‐go social security. Carries out the analysis within an overlapping generations model of a closed economy. Analyses the consequences of a shock on the labour growth rate. A decline of the labour growth rate might reduce the maximum sustainable social security. Normally it will increase capital per head, but with a high social security there might be an inverse reaction. Concludes that this is due to an increased burden of social security on the active generation.

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Bräuninger, M. (1996), "Capital accumulation under a pay‐as‐you‐go social security: The influence of labour growth", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23 No. 10/11, pp. 226-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004307

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