Altruism and fairness in a public pension system



Table 4.1 Number of respondents per situation

situation code

all generations

old

middle-aged

young

BS

988

269

314

405

LC

4926

129

156

207

HC

496

140

158

198

LB

988

269

314

405

EB

988

269

314

405

As mentioned before, the respondents have been asked to evaluate four situations: two situations
without the inclusion of ageing effects (BS and LC or BS and HC), and two with the inclusion of
ageing effects (LB and EB). To get an idea of the evaluations of these variants, the average grades
given by the respondents are presented in table 4.2, both for the total sample and for the separate
generations7.

Table 4.2 Average evaluations of the situations

code

grade

sample

old

middle-aged

young

BS______

6.26

6.35

6.24

6.20

LC

4.46

4.30

4.37

4.63

HC

5.75

5.48

6.23

5.55

LB______

4.29

4.56

4.23

4.16

EB

5.74

5.93

6.05

5.48

There appears to be hardly any difference between the evaluations of the basic situation (BS) by the
various generations: all generations prefer the basic situation to all other alternatives presented. The
variation in the evaluations of the situation without ageing, lower contributions and lower public
pension benefits (LC) is also rather small. The middle-aged generation classifies the situation without
ageing and with higher contributions and higher public pension benefits (HC) relatively high, even

6In the questionnaire, respondents got either the situation LC or HC.
7See also Van der Heijden (1995) for a further analysis.



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