TY - RPRT AU - Cipriani, Giam Pietro TI - Aging, Retirement and Pay-As-You-Go Pensions PY - 2016/May/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 9969 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9969 AB - In this paper we consider the effects of population aging on a pay-as-you-go financed defined contributions pension scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this effect is unambiguously negative. KW - retirement KW - aging KW - PAYG pensions KW - overlapping generations model ER -