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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive - 2014
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions …, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of … incentives to contribute to mandatory insurance programs and to create formal jobs; 2) they can be regressive since …
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Financing Social Security : Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160308
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Migrant Workers and the Welfare State
Andersen, Torben M. - 2016
There is wide concern that migration flows may undermine the financial viability of generous welfare arrangements. The discussion focuses on welfare arrangements as attractors of migrants, suggesting that the issue does not pertain to migrant workers. However, this overlooks how welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990870
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
Blundell, Richard W. - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059679
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131163
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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution
Boeri, Tito - 2009
Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of social inclusion are becoming a weapon of mass exclusion. Increasing concerns of public opinion are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158085
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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2021
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...
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Demand Stimulus as Social Policy
Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Murphy, Daniel - 2022
in homeownership, health insurance rates, and occupational prestige. We compare the effects of defense spending with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076469