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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003
of inequality are used as treatments. Other determinants of the demand for redistribution, such as risk aversion and … under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to oppose redistribution policies. The … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long …
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Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the social insurance system of a country can have on the supply and demand side of the labor market, and proposes options …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734419
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Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - 2013
the social insurance system of a country can have on the supply and demand side of the labor market, and proposes options …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329192
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De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Immervoll, Herwig; Fernandez, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351828
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886148
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398307
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268612
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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265550
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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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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : A revised version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261664