Institutional and Financial Incentives for Social Insurance

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1 The Effects of Welfare Benefits on the Duration of Welfare Spells1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Data -- 1.3 Nonparametric Analysis -- 1.4 Parametric Analysis of Welfare Spell Durations -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 The Design of Active Labour Market Policies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Policy Effectiveness and the Underlying Causes of Unemployment Persistence -- 2.3 Incentives: Do they matter? -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Labor Market Policies and Equilibrium Employment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Job Matching, Labor Market Policies and Equilibrium Employment -- 3.3 A Numerical Simulation for Belgium -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Unemployment Compensation Preferences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Preferences Concerning Unemployment Insurance: a Simple Model -- 4.3 Design of the Survey -- 4.4 Estimation Results: Preferences Concerning the Unemployment Insurance System -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Competition and Budget Devolution in Health Care -- 5.1 The 1990 Reforms -- 5.2 Evaluating the 1990 Reforms -- 5.3 The New Labour Government Tries Again -- 6 Pension Provision in the United States -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Public Sources of Income -- 6.3 Private Pension Plans -- 6.4 Sustainability of the Public System -- 6.5 Activity Rates -- 6.6 Income Distribution -- 6.7 Conclusions -- 7 The Willingness to Pay for Pensions -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Model -- 7.3 The Relationship Between Instantaneous Utilities and Lifetime Utilities -- 7.4 Benchmarks -- 7.5 Funded System with Income Insurance -- 7.6 Pay-as-you-go Pension Systems -- 7.7 Discussion -- 8 Social Security and Risk Sharing -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Model -- 8.3 Interim Optimality -- 8.4 Equilibrium and Intergenerational Transfers -- 8.5 Proofs -- 9 Transition from Unfunded to Funded Social Security -- 9.1 A Simple Model -- 9.2 Would the Young Ever Want to Bribe the Old? -- 9.3 How Should Pension Funds Be Managed? -- 9.4 Conclusion -- 10 Voting over Social Security with Uncertain Lifetimes -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Economy -- 10.3 Flat-Rate Benefits -- 10.4 Contribution-Related Benefits -- 10.5 Means-Tested Benefits -- 10.6 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Proof of Proposition 4 -- 11 The Political Economy -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Model -- 11.3 Majority Voting in the Steady State -- 11.4 Demographic Shock -- 11.5 Choosing the Parameters ? and p -- 11.6 Conclusion.

10.1007/978-1-4615-0783-3 [DOI]

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