pensions to individual incomes reduces distortions associated with social security contributions, but incurs insurance loss. We …We study interactions between progressive labor taxation and social security reform. Increasing longevity puts fiscal … strain that necessitates the social security reform. The current social security is redistributive, thus providing (at least …

linear labor income tax and earnings-dependent pensions, which approximate the current German pension system, the theory … consequences of increasing the social security contribution rate in Germany? The question is answered theoretically by setting up a …

This paper explores whether South Africa’s social security policies offer consistent, synergistic and long … kinds of social security instruments. The instruments examined are the Child Support Grant as an example of social … instruments in relation to redistribution and transformative gender effects. However, the effects across the social security …

citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of … interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship and transnational studies"-- …"This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare and European social …

establishment of the European Community's social policy. It argues that Parliament played a key role in placing this nascent policy …

the European Union, evolving in complexity and increasing in cooperation as the EU has expanded and changed. The … culmination of this cooperation was the EU Insolvency Regulation which deals with the coordination of cross-border insolvency … crisis and its slow recovery, business failures and unemployment are both at the forefront of economic concerns. The EU has …

, which federal law allows if their employer-provided plans provide comparable benefits. Yet many public pensions are less …Social Security is designed to provide a base of retirement income, to be supplemented in part by employer …-sponsored retirement plans. However, approximately one-quarter of state and local government employees are not covered by Social Security …