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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary
Gruber, Jonathan - 2010
This is the introduction and summary to the fourth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...
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Migration and the Welfare State : Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Suwankiri, Ben - 2021
We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner to capture the essence of...
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Social Insurance, Incentives, and Risk Taking
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
From the perspective of parents, redistributive taxation can be seen as social insurance for their children, for which … no private alternative exists. Because private insurance comes too late during a person's life, it cannot cover the same … risks as social insurance. Empirically, 85% of social insurance covers risks for which no private insurance would have been …
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Migration and the Welfare State : A Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
Razin, Assaf - 2010
We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149699
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Intra-Household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
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Religiosity and State Welfare
Dills, Angela K. - 2013
The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous decline in religiosity affected several measures of...
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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence from an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole; Jensen, Amalie Sofie; Kleven, Henrik - 2022
We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...
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Public Economics and Inequality : Uncovering Our Social Nature
Saez, Emmanuel - 2022
This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic model, is crucial to understand our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the...
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Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch
Lindert, Peter H. - 2021
The econometric consensus on the effects of social spending confirms a puzzle we confront in the raw data: There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large. The paper offers five keys to this free lunch puzzle....
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The Welfare State and Migration : A Dynamic Analysis of Political Coalitions
Razin, Assaf - 2015
We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct voting groups: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The essence of inter- and intra-generational redistribution of a typical welfare system is captured with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031031