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The demographic shift underway in Southern Europe requires a revision of some of the fundamental principles of the traditional welfare state. We analyze the evolution of several aspects of welfare and social expenditure over the last two decades. We find that in the context of the present...
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The demographic shift underway in Southern Europe requires a revision of some of the fundamental principles of the traditional welfare state. We analyze the evolution of several aspects of welfare and social expenditure over the last two decades. We find that in the context of the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572670
first. Finally the trend of disability in Spain seems not to change among years and regional differences are not found. …
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expenditure for public pensions in Spain. Our quantitative findings can be summarized in two sentences. For all the reforms …
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patterns observed between 2002 and 2008 in Spain. It is subsequently used to analyze the effects of the 2011 pension reform in … Spain, characterized by two-year delays in both the early and the normal retirement ages. We find that this reform generates …
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In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (THhenceforth) in Spain …
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Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...
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This paper quantifies the effects of social security on capital accumulation and wealth distribution in a life cycle framework with altruistic individuals. The main findings of this paper are that the current U.S. social security system has a significant impact on capital accumulation and wealth...
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Why are the old politically successful? We build a simple interest group model in which political pressure is time-intensive, showing that in the political competitive equilibrium each group lobbies for government policies that lower their own value of time but the old do so to a greater extent...
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"monopoly capitalism theory", and the "Sub-but-Nearly-Optimal policy response to private pensions theory". The political and …
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