Working Paper
Free Choice of Unfunded Systems: A First Assessment
Gabrielle Demange
CESifo, Munich, 2005
CESifo Working Paper No. 1398
CESifo, Munich, 2005
CESifo Working Paper No. 1398
The first pillars of social security systems differ widely across European countries both in the contribution rate and intra-generational redistribution. What would the impact of these differences be if EU citizens had free access to all systems? This paper aims to highlight some basic features of this question in a very simple two-country model.
Keywords: unfunded systems, intragenerational redistribution, free choice