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Political risk of social security: case of indexation of benefits in the Czech Republic

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education |
2006

Abstract

The paper represents the first attempt to quantify the so called political risk of social security in the Czech Republic. We measure the risk stemming from the government's discretion over indexation of benefits as it actually affected the cohorts retiring between the late 1980's and mid 1990's