The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If …

analyse how the welfare state, i.e., social insurance that works through redistributive taxation, should deal with this trend … risks can be reduced either by individual self-insurance or, through pooling, by social insurance. Both ways are costly in … terms of income foregone. We show: (i) Self-insurance will be higher the more costly is the welfare state and the larger are …

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and …

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social … individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This paper revisits the design of optimal LTC insurance while adopting the ex post … optimal LTC social insurance is quite sensitive to the postulated social criterion. The optimal second-best social insurance …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. -- Outsourcing ; unemployment ; social insurance …