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Andersen, Torben M. - 2023

Within the frame of the Nordic welfare model, pension system design has taken very different routes. While the overall aims in terms of distribution and replacement rates are similar, the division of labour between defined benefit and contribution as well as pay-as-you-go versus funded schemes...

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Global Taxation and National Welfare States

Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023

This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the financing of national welfare states. In this context, it summarizes the theoretical predictions of various economic models of tax competition between countries and discusses the role...

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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market : Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark

Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...

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Fair Long-Term Care Insurance

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021

There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...

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Leaky Bucket in the Real World : Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data

Pirttila, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021

Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....

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The Effect of Social Distancing Measures on the Demand for Intensive Care : Evidence on COVID-19 in Scandinavia

Juranek, Steffen - 2020

costly social distancing measures. We present a case study focusing on the three Scandinavian countries. Whereas Denmark and … in which Sweden serves as a counterfactual to Denmark/Norway to estimate the measures' effectiveness. We estimate that in … the counterfactual in which Denmark/Norway implemented Sweden's more lenient measures the number of hospitalizations would …

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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Batinti, Alberto - 2019

We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...

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The Scandinavian model: prospects and challenges

Andersen, Torben M. - 2007

Scandinavian countries are often portrayed in policy debates as model examples having shown how to square concerns for efficiency and equity. The core principle of the Scandinavian welfare model is an individual entitlement to public sector provisions combined with collective financing via...

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