The following paper reports the main objective and the expected outcomes of an ambitious project that aims to develop a model for the analysis of both inter-household and intra-household distribution in a life-cycle perspective. In reporting such research objectives, this analysis focuses in...

It is usually thought that a Beveridgean pension system redistributes income more than a Bismarckian one, since it ensures replacement ratios that decrease with income. We check the validity of this result when the fact that pension systems can redistribute also through their effects on labor...

In models with exogenous labor supply, a reallocation of funds from a wage-related pension to a basic pension affects inequality through changes in the pension paid, redistributing resources from the rich to the poor. We show that in a model with endogenous labor supply, another effect is...