Download or read book Reform of the Canada Pension Plan written by Mr.Charles Frederick Kramer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other transfer programs, a pay-as-you-go public pension system can significantly affect economic behavior and, hence, relative prices and macroeconomic aggregates. This paper illustrates some of these effects, which are important in weighing options for reforming public pensions, in the context of a stylized model of the Canadian economy. It shows that introducing such a system can reduce aggregate saving, income, and wages and increase interest rates. It also shows that a significant part of the distortion can occur because benefits are not explicitly linked to contributions and that creating a linkage can reduce the distortions associated with the wage tax that funds plan contributions.