Indicators for Measuring Intergenerational Fairness of Social Security Systems—The Case of the German Social Health Insurance

The issue of fiscal sustainability is often labelled as a synonym for intergenerational fairness; however, pay-as-you-go schemes such as the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) involve a “natural” amount of intergenerational redistribution from younger net payers to older net beneficiaries. We calc...

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Main Authors: Stefan Fetzer, Stefan Moog
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/10/5743