@article {10.34196/ijm.00193,
article_type = {journal},
title = {A role for universal pension? Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa},
author = {Jouste, Maria and Rattenhuber, Pia},
volume = 12,
number = 1,
year = 2019,
month = {apr},
pub_date = {2019-04-30},
pages = {13-51},
citation = {IJM 2019;12(1):13-51},
doi = {10.34196/ijm.00193},
url = {https://doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00193},
abstract = {We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa to analyse ex ante the expansion of a universal old-age pension in a static setting. Universal pensions would significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings where no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as in Ghana and Tanzania). If means-tested old-age pensions exist and shall be maintained, universal pensions as a top up scheme only make a difference for the income distribution if the existing schemes do not reach the entire vulnerable population such as in Ecuador. Costs for the proposed schemes are substantial.},
keywords = {tax-benefit microsimulation, SOUTHMOD, poverty, pension systems},
journal = {IJM},
issn = {1747-5864},
publisher = {International Journal of Microsimulation},
}