Author
PhD student in the Faculty of Economics, Allameh Tabatabai University
Abstract
One of the most important objectives of implementing social security systems is income redistribution and poverty alleviation among the members of the society, that is accompanied with other policies to improve income distribution.
Among different strategies of social security, social insurance has a special priority and covers a large share of the society. Since old age and disability is certain to occur in everyone's normal life, therefore the issue of pensioners' income is important for both pensioners and the society at large.
This paper uses the household budget survey of the Iran Statistic Center to study the households with a pensioner head and to compare this group with urban households, using distribution measures and indices.
The results show that, in average, headcount ratio between households with a pensioner head is less than the urban households.
The annual per capita expenditure in former group is higher than the latter one, and are not income distribution between pensioners improved in years, but results show a better situation for urban households.
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