Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies: A Cross-National Comparison of 29 OECD Countries

Vanhuysse, Pieter

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“…In an insightful comparative study, Peter Vanhuysse showed that many OECD countries, especially developed democracies, score rather badly with regard to the demands of intergenerational justice (Vanhuysse 2013). These democracies not only score badly on factors such as absolute child poverty or child poverty in relation to old-age poverty but also have a bad score on the public debt they leave per child and their ecological footprint.…”

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Can Youth Quotas Help Avoid Future Disasters?

Wallimann-Helmer

2015

Youth Quotas and Other Efficient Forms of Youth Participation in Ageing Societies

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In this paper I argue for the following conclusions. First, quotas are not normative goals in themselves but only a means to reach non-discriminatory selection procedures. Second, in a democracy quotas are most plausibly used as a means to fill offices in those bodies which have a major impact on how well interests or discourses are translated into policy. Third, quotas for the young can be justified since, due to demographic development, their discourses tend to be marginalized. Fourth, youth quotas cannot be a means to ensure long-term policy-making, but they can enhance legitimacy of long-term impacts from policy decisions taken today.

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Section: The Problemmentioning

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Can Youth Quotas Help Avoid Future Disasters?

Wallimann-Helmer

2015

Youth Quotas and Other Efficient Forms of Youth Participation in Ageing Societies

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“…By international comparison, East ECE countries tend to have relatively inactive welfare states that are, in addition, comparatively heavily biased towards elderly citizens (Vanhuysse, 2013). Today, legacies from earlier post-communist policies and practices such as inadequate health-care practices, internationally very low labour market participation rates among women and older workers (Cerami and Vanhuysse, 2009) and historically unprecedented "great abnormal pensioner booms" (early and disability retirement) (Vanhuysse, 2004) have prepared East ECE countries badly for the coming three decades, when their societies will enter a period of particularly fast demographic aging.…”

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Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region: Outcomes, Policies and Possibilities

2013

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“…The debate departs from three observations: (1) the currently elderly receive more public transfers than the elderly of the past (Kotlikoff and Burns 2004); (2) the elderly receive more than children (Lynch 2006, Vanhuysse 2013; and (3) the elderly/children public transfer ratio has been increasing (Preston 1984). 2 The tendency is alternatively referred to as 'grey power', 'gerontocracy' (Sinn and Uebelmesser 2002), or 'pro-elderly bias' (Gamliel-Yehoshua and Vanhuysse 2010).…”

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“…Gal is grateful for the hospitality of the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University. 2 For a critical review, see Vanhuysse (2013). 3 For critical reviews, see Tepe and Vanhuysse (2009) and Goerres and Vanhuysse (2012).…”

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Pro-Elderly Welfare States within Pro-Child Societies: Incorporating Family Cash and Time into Intergenerational Transfers Analysis

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Vargha³

2016

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Households and welfare states both serve as vehicles of lifecycle financing through intergenerational transfers. Working-age people are net contributors, children and the elderly are net beneficiaries. However, there is a marked asymmetry in the socialization of intergenerational transfers. Working-age people pay taxes and social security contributions to care for the elderly as a generation, but they individually spend cash and contribute time to raise their own children. This results in asymmetric visibility of intergenerational transfers. Resources flowing to the elderly are near-fully observed in National Accounts (NA), but inter-and intra-household transfers are not registered there. Using data for ten European countries representing 70 percent of the population of the EU, we employ National Transfer Accounts (NTA) to include private transfers as well. In addition, as an extension of NTA, we use National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) to quantify the value of time transferred within and between households in the form of unpaid labor. Only a fifth of all resource transfers to children is registered in NA; another third is made visible by NTA, but nearly half is made visible only by NTTA. Contrary to much perceived wisdom, once intra-familial transfers of cash and time are incorporated, European societies transfer more resources to children than to the elderly.

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Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies: A Cross-National Comparison of 29 OECD Countries

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Can Youth Quotas Help Avoid Future Disasters?

Can Youth Quotas Help Avoid Future Disasters?

Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region: Outcomes, Policies and Possibilities

Pro-Elderly Welfare States within Pro-Child Societies: Incorporating Family Cash and Time into Intergenerational Transfers Analysis

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