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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation
Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...
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On the political economy of social security and public education
Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a European economy with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...
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Taxing pensions
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016 - March 2016, revised May 2016
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...
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Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation
Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...
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The political economy of social security
Casamatta, Georges; Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2000
We consider a two-period overlapping generations model in which individual voters differ by age and by productivity. In such a setting, a redistributive Pay-As-You-Go system is politically sustainable, even when the interest rate is larger than the rate of population growth. The workers with...
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The macroeconomic effects of longevity risk under private and public insurance and asymmetric information
Heijdra, Ben J.; Jiang, Yang; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2017
We study the impact of a fully-funded social security system in an economy with heterogeneous consumers. The unobservability of individual health conditions leads to adverse selection in the private annuity market. Introducing social security - which is immune to adverse selection - affects...
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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey...
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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Keuschnigg, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance markets are missing. The main results are: (i)...
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