How the young get more than the elderly out of society - but not out ...
(WorldNews Denmark)

via shutterstock.com Accusations levelled against the baby boomer generation for hoarding too much wealth and wielding too much `grey power` in an age of `gerontocracy` have become commonplace across Europe. At the centre of this debate lies the question of what resources different generations pass on to each other - and what is fair. But in a new research paper on intergenerational transfers , demographers Robert Gal, Lili Vargha and I argue that it´s misleading to portray older people as benefiting more from society than younger people. Complaints of intergenerational unfairness are often based purely on analysis of how much public money is spent on people at different stages of their...