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Social security and the rise in health spending: a macroeconomic analysis
Zhao, Kai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
found, because Social Security induces extra years of life via health spending and thus encourages private savings for …
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Gandhi – An Economist's Eye View
Viswanatha, Sankara Rama Subramaniam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
financial factors. Domestic investments should be from Domestic Savings. Domestic technology (Latest moderated to suit local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587499
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O istorie socială a spaţiului românesc. De la începuturile statalităţii dacice până la întrezărirea modernităţii
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
A Social History of Romanian Space. From the Beginning of Dacian state until the rise of Modernity presents on a wide scale in time and space the history of Romanian states from their ancestors, from Antiquity, continuing with the Medieval Romanian Life and State and ending with social realities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258199
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Social learning increases the acceptance and the efficiency of punishment institutions in social dilemmas
Gürerk, Özgür - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Endogenously chosen punishment institutions perform well in increasing contributions and long-term payoffs in social dilemma situations. However, they suffer from (a) initial reluctance of subjects to join the punishment institution and (b) initial efficiency losses due to frequent punishment....
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Reforming the Dutch Welfare State: A Scenario Approach
Hoek, M. Peter van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
their household. The second scenario is that of a "mini-system", in which statutory benefits are restricted to some minimum … level. The third scenario is that of further differentiation of the social minimum by household size, in which benefits are … better attuned to the composition and size of household types. These three scenarios are evaluated on the basis of four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836171
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Old-Age Pension Reform and Modernization Pathways: Lessons for China from Latin America
Calvo, Esteban; Williamson, John B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy reform, both Latin America and China, in contrast, are dealing with these challenges in the context of much less...
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Political budget cycles and social security budget increases in the Republic of Ireland, 1923-2005
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines social security increases in Ireland as a case study of the existence of political budget cycles in European countries. Ireland is an appropriate country to examine, first because it has a system of proportional representation and some studies suggest that proportional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836759
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SOCIAL SECURITY FOR UNORGANISED WORKERS IN INDIA
Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The unorganised workers account for about 93 per cent of the total workforce and there is a steady growth in it over years in India. It is argued that India had a long tradition of informal social security and social assistance system directed particularly towards the more vulnerable sections of...
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Social Security Mechanism(System): Theories, Design and Practice
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Living through hunger and physical hardship from infancy to premature old age; living through economic shifts that close factories and strip currency of its value in an instant; living through social turmoil, political upheaval, and war; through it all, poor men and women in communities around...
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Some Propositions on Intergenerational Risk Sharing, Social Security and Self-Insurance
Aoki, Takaaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article describes, within a myopic intergenerational bargaining framework incorporating two discrete periods and binary states of risks, some new aspects regarding the mixture of intergenerational risk sharing and social security. Here, state-dependent utility under mortality risk proves to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837210