Taking two to tango: the joint prospective assessment of pension sustainability and adequacy in Belgium

Dekkers, Gijs and Desmet, Raphaël (2011): Taking two to tango: the joint prospective assessment of pension sustainability and adequacy in Belgium.

Abstract

This presentation discusses how such integrated approach using shared demographic and macroeconomic assumptions has been developed in Belgium. It describes the dynamic microsimulation model MIDAS, highlighting how it aligns to the simulation results of the semi-aggregate model MALTESE. The authors would like to thank Jean-Maurice Frère and Michel Englert for their valuable comments on a previous version of this paper.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Pensions; adequacy; sustainability; microsimulation
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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