A note on social security, human capital and growth
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https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-19-00220.htmlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/8126
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2019-12-18Metadata
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Thøgersen JT. A note on social security, human capital and growth. Economics Bulletin. 2019;39(4):2921-2930Sammendrag
In this paper we study the effect of an old-age public pension scheme, when growth is triggered by human capital accumulation. In Zhang (1995) and Kemnitz and Wigger (2000), it is shown that introducing an unfunded pension system in a Laissez-Faire economy will increase economic growth. The present paper follows Kemnitz and Wigger, but shows that a properly designed public funded system will also generate higher economic growth than a Laissez-Faire economy. Moreover, it is shown how capital intensity is affected by the funded pension scheme.