Three Pillars of Pensions: Revised and Annotated

Willmore, Larry (2000): Three Pillars of Pensions: Revised and Annotated.

Abstract

This is an old, but important paper, based on a presentation that I made to an OECD conference in Prague in April of the year 2000. This defined my future work on pension reform. I circulated it as a UNDESA discussion paper in June 2000. It was subsequently published by the OECD, "edited for length". In this revised and annotated version, written at the end of August 2014, I highlight and explain the importance of deletions that OECD editors made to my original paper.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: public pensions, tax incentives, universal pensions
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions

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