Allocating Pensions to Younger People: Towards a Social Insurance against a Short Life

This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death. In contrast to the way in which economically developed countries provide ways of insuring citizens against other possibilities, such as unemployment and disease, no such social insurance mechanism exists for early death.

It aims to demonstrate that, despite the impossibility to compensate the victims of a short life once they are iden...