Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

30 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2003 Last revised: 31 Oct 2010

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Raphael Desmet

Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium

Alain Jousten

University of Liege; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Netspar; International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Sergio Perelman

University of Liège - Department of Economics

Pierre Pestieau

University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

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Date Written: February 2003

Abstract

The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we illustrate the budgetary impact that the reforms considered might have on the budget of the federal government.

Suggested Citation

Desmet, Raphael and Jousten, Alain and Perelman, Sergio and Pestieau, Pierre, Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium (February 2003). NBER Working Paper No. w9494, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=379273

Raphael Desmet

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