Public Debt and Generational Balance in Austria

Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela; Koman, Reinhard; Lüth, Erik and Raffelhüschen, Bernd (March 2000) Public Debt and Generational Balance in Austria. Former Series > Working Paper Series > IHS Economics Series 80

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Abstract

Abstract: Based on Austria's fiscal stance in 1995, we compute the generational accounts for currently living as well as future generations. The results reveal the existence of an enormous intergenerational imbalance in favor of currently living generations . Total public sector liabilities may be more than five times as high as the officially recorded level of public debt. Without any action, future generations would face life-time net taxes that are about 65 percent higher than the tax burden of a current newborn. If the government could fully and permanently retain the expenditure cutting and revenue raising effects of the 1996 fiscal consolidation package and the 1997 pension reform, then it might be able to significantly reduce the intergenerational liabilities. However, enacting both the recent tax reform 2000 and the reform of the family support scheme would increase again the fiscal imbalance and intergenerational inequity of fiscal policy in Austria.;

Item Type: IHS Series
Keywords: 'Fiscal policy' 'Social security' 'Public debt' 'Generational accounting'
Classification Codes (e.g. JEL): E6, H5, H6
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2014 10:37
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2024 13:21
URI: https://irihs.ihs.ac.at/id/eprint/1255

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