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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 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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Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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Asymmetries in earnings, employment and wage risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
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Cyclical income risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic...
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Social security incidence under uncertainty assessing Italian reforms
Geron, Devis - 2009
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of the Italian social security system in an economy with uncertainty on wages, financial market returns and life expectancy. The introduction of a pension system reproducing the Italian statutory scheme turns out to decrease ex-ante individual welfare,...
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Increasing longevity and social security reforms
Andersen, Torben M. (contributor) - 2006
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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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Public pensions in the national accounts and public finance targets
Oksanen, Heikki - 2004
Preparations are underway to revise national accounting to implement actuarial recording of pension liabilities for corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of "implicit tax" in pension contributions. The clearest advantages of...
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Nursing homes and mortality in Europe : uncertain causality
Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022
want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using … matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic …
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