INVESTIGADORES
ARZA Camila
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The distributional impacts of pension policy in the Argentine
Autor/es:
ARZA, CAMILA
Lugar:
Londres
Reunión:
Workshop; Thesis Workshop in Economic History, London School of Economics; 2003
Institución organizadora:
London School of Economics
Resumen:
This paper is concerned with the distributional impacts of the Argentine social insurance system over the second half of the twentieth century. It aims to identify the net income transfers operated through the pension system and their change over time. The analysis greatly benefits from a new set of primary data collected in the field, as well as from a methodology that has not been applied before to the analysis of the impacts of social insurance in Argentina. This new approach aims to overcome the limitations found in the existing literature, both in the breadth (specially time-period) and depth (analytical contributions) of the analysis. The paper provides a detailed analysis of the calculation rules for pension benefits over the history of pension policy in Argentina, and embarks in the analysis of the distributional features included in these rules. This primary data research ?done for the first time systematically for the Argentine- permits the identification of three main stages in social insurance development ((1) before 1968, (2) 1968-1993, and (3) 1994-onwards) according to the way it distributes pension benefits. In the last section, the paper provides a first attempt to measure and quantify the lifecycle income transfers operated by the Argentine social insurance system between income groups and generations.