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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross …-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … the long-term. But studies measuring redistribution often focus on a one-year period and the second aspect is neglected …
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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …
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Comparing income transfer systems : is Australia the poor relation?
Mitchell, Deborah - 1990
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Various taxes for social security and their different impacts on growth
Zhang, Jie - 1994
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Social security and aggregate capital accumulation revisited : dynamic simultaneous estimates in a wealthgeneration model
Beach, Charles M.; Boardway, Robin W.; Gibbons, Jack O. - 1982
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Distributive impacts of social security financing in Brazil
Soares, Sergei; Bloch, Carolina - 2019
This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
public redistribution. Mean levels of welfare vary widely across regions. This is also because social spending achieves litte …
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
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