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This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …
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costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
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-dimensional. We thus study the general redistributive programs, which are typical of the modern welfare state: redistribution between … congressional and parliamentary political systems, focusing on their implications for rent extraction by politicians, redistribution …
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. Finally, after reviewing the benefits of using simulation games in NRM, the authors stress the ethical issue of changing … of Simulation & Gaming, some key features related to the implementation of gaming in such a context are introduced …
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agent of the economy. Moreover, such a policy decreases the tax rate of the pension system. …
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linkbetween contributions and benefits has an impact on the level of capital per capita if and only if there are inequalities of …-benefitstructure. The tax rate and inequalities decrease, whereas the wealth of each agent increases. However, with a defined …
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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to affect individual preferences in the literature, the egoistic … motives for redistribution are taken seriously and this article focuses on the role played by the occupational status of … presented here identifies which socio-political groups may be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. …
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Although the crisis of the Welfare State has been evoked for quite a long time, figures show that such a phenomenon has arisen only recently. Furthermore, it is not a common feature in all developed countries. This paper aims at explaining these two empirical facts. We use an overlapping...
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inflation-reduction policy. The central idea is that the decision on membership of the union leads to a redistribution between … generate support for joining the union, the ‘tax effect’ of having to raise more taxes in order to pay for the increased real …
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