The Economics of Local Government Pensions and Pension Funding
Journal of Political Economy
1978
This paper presents a simple analytical model of optimum pension size and funding practices for a local government. The criterion used is that the attainable frontier of labor-service purchases, for two periods, should be pushed out as far as possible given that there is a fixed endowment of tax revenues in each period. After the characteristics of the frontier are developed, the relationship between optimizing decisions and pension-funding practices is examined. Comparative-static results which may be fruitful for future empirical work are then derived.
- DOI
- 10.1086/260685
- Volume
- 86 (3)
- Pages
- 517-527
- Language
- en
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