Economic Sustainability and Intergenerational Fairness: A New Taxonomy of Indicators
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The aim of this paper is to facilitate informed choice about indicators of economic sustainability and intergenerational fairness and decisions about their uses. We focus on four issues. First, we found that the same type of indicator measured at different levels – such as the general government, the (market) economy or the total economy, which includes both the market economy and the household economy – often leads to different conclusions. Second, sustainability analysis is frequently built on exogenously set age limits even though it is obvious that old age does not everywhere start at age 65; it did not always start there where it does today; and most likely it will not start there in the future. Third, we use our taxonomy of more than 80 indicators to spot holes, shortcomings and absences. Fourth, we show some structural differences between indicators of sustainability and fairness.
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Róbert I. Gál, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute
Robert I. Gal is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute and Affiliated Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest. His research is in intergenerational resource reallocations. He published in Demographic Research,
Population Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy and, as part of a research team, in Science.
Judit Monostori, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute
Judit Monostori is senior research fellow at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, where she has been since 2007. She is currently lecturer at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interests include demographic ageing, retirement and intergenerational transfers.