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Finan, Frederico S.; Schechter, Laura - 2011

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

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Understanding the distributional impacts of increases in fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gayoso de Ervin, Lyliana E.; … - 2023

The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have … analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … more regressive in Paraguay. At the same time, the results of the simulations indicate small effects on income inequality. …

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The impact of labor intermediation and training in high informality contexts : evidence from Paraguay

Campos, Nicolás; Chalup Calmotti, Miguel Sebastiano; … - 2024

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of reforming public training programs offered in Paraguay on … employment history and characteristics of all formal workers in Paraguay - with an empirical strategy based on extensions of …

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Is there a social security tax wedge?

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2006

A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably introduces a wedge between the wage rate and the marginal take-home pay. A Bismarckian one can do so only if it is not actuarially fair, or in the presence of credit rationing. Interestingly, if the two possible sources of distortion are present at the...

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Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? : A median voter approach

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor); … - 2005

We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by political process. The inefficiency of social security...

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Financing social security : simulating different welfare state systems for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience

Caliendo, Marco - 2009

In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...

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Migration and urban poverty and inequality in China

Park, Albert; Wang, Dewen - 2010

Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for migrants and local residents. Contrary to...

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Disability in the welfare state : an unemployment problem in disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...

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