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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark
Bogedan, Claudia - 2005
Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dänemark haben von Wissenschaft und Politik in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, da das kleine Land als erfolgreicher Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodernisierer gilt. Das dänische Beschäftigungswunder wird dabei als Gegenentwurf zu einer Politik...
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Social Protection for the Informal Sector : State of the international debate and the situation in the Arab world with special reference to the potential of the micro-insurance app...
Loewe, Markus - 2004
Welt realisieren – zumindest in Ländern wie z.B. Jordanien oder Marokko. …Social policy reforms are due in the Arab world. The main problem of social protection in this world region is not a … been set up in the Arab world but some very successful examples were found in other world regions. Likewise, micro …
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Trade Unions and Occupational Health and Safety
Donado Gomez, Alejandro - 2011
-country world consisting of the capital-rich "North" and the capital-poor "South". The North has trade unions that set high OHS … Aufsatz erweitert das Modell um eine Zwei-Länder-Welt bestehend aus dem kapitalreichen "Norden" und dem kapitalarmen "Süden …
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Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution
Zhao, Kai - 2009
Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447209
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Heterogeneous Ability, Life Expectancy, and Social Security : Four Essays
Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008
Though the present thesis is not intended as a monograph, its respective chapters are interrelated: The major research question is whether the German public pension system (or potentially any annuity-based pension system) causes redistribution between income groups. Especially the relationship...
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The distribution of social security transfers in the UK
Nolan, Brian - 1986
The distributional impact of different transfer programmes is one of the basic criteria on which decisions such as those on resource allocation may be based. This paper examines the spread over the UK size distribution of different transfers, using data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES)....
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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement - Empirical Evidence from Switzerland and Germany
Hanel, Barbara - 2010
Die Arbeit untersucht in drei unabhängigen Studien Determinanten der Renteneintrittsentscheidung. Es werden drei natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben haben und die Identifikation kausaler Effekte erlauben....
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The implementation of strategic decisions at the Social Security Commission in Namibia
Ndara, Daniel Sipopa - 2009
The study was conducted to determine the key obstacles to strategy implementation at the Social Security Commission. The objective was to establish various factors that inhibit successful strategy implementation and explore alternative approaches that could be adopted to facilitate effective...
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General equilibrium effects of an alternative social security development in Indonesia
Sudarto, Economics, Australian School of Business, UNSW - 2008
This study investigates general equilibrium effects of an alternative social security policy in Indonesia. The study aims to analyse some financial issues of the proposed policy using a dynamic CGE model. The focus is investigating possible tax scenarios to finance the proposed policy and their...
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Social security reform with imperfect substitution between less and more experienced workers
Rojas Blaya, Juan Alberto - 2008
In this paper we study the quantitative properties of a policy reform aimed at funding the pension system in the standard model economy with perfect substitution across workers with different experience levels and a model economy where this substitutability is imperfect. With compulsory...
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