benefits should be decoupled from average wages, and social transfers could be reoriented towards in–work social benefits. This …

benefits should be decoupled from average wages, and social transfers could be reoriented towards in–work social benefits. This …

significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits …

significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits …

. Microeconomic simulations of taxes and benefits suggest room for augmenting these policies with adjustments to benefits and tax … recent introduction of mandatory second-pillar pension saving. But this reform has also raised questions about the structure …

reforms in targeting social support, especially housing benefits, extending unemployment insurance and introducing a means …

, which are both pay-as-you go (PAYG) financed. Two stylised PAYG pension schemes are modelled and simulated to compare their … two schemes are compared. Different policy reforms (increasing the contribution rate, diminishing the pension benefit …

” programme is remarkable but transfer payments remain too heavily focused on pension benefits. Giving more priority to “Bolsa … Familia” and “Brasil sem Miseria” while limiting the real growth of pension expenditures in the future would improve the …

benefits and public spending on active labour market programmes as well as between statutory minimum wages and the tax wedge …, high and long-lasting unemployment benefits, high tax wedges and stringent anti- competitive product market regulation are … rate equations are also estimated. In the "average" OECD country, high unemployment benefits and high tax wedges are found …