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Pension income inequality : a cohort study in six European countries

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...

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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies : Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government's and social partner's efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current...

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Production of last resort support : a comparison on social assistance schemes in Europe with the notion of welfare production and the concept of social right

Kuivalainen, Susan (contributor) - 2005

This paper aims to assess the present social assistance schemes with the model of production of welfare and the concept of social right. The interest is in how different stages of social assistance schemes are linked and how schemes appear when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects...

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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...

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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?

Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006

The recent EU expansion raised fears of potential migration motivated by welfare receipt. In this paper we use … EU and find that within - EU migrants are similar to natives both in terms of their characteristics and social support … receipt. On the other hand, we confirm the existence of large social income gaps in favor of non - EU immigrants, but these …

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