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Importing a Successful System? Simulating Different Regimes of Financing Social Security for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of … this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For … to implement the financing systems of other European countries in Germany (policy swap). The introduction of a Liberal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331446
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Brandmelder der Zukunft: Die aktuelle Generationenbilanz
Hagist, Christian; Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Weddige, Olaf - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378077
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Die Generationenbilanz: Brandmelder der Zukunft. Update 2007: Demografie trifft Konjunktur
Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Hagist, Christian; Heidler, Matthias - 2007
Dass die zunehmende Alterung der Bevölkerung Deutschland in den kommenden Dekaden vor große Herausforderungen stellen … Generationenbilanz für Deutschland zu veröffentlichen. Die vorliegende Studie stellt das erste planmäßige Update dar. Es beinhaltet eine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378079
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Reforming Social Protection Policy: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
Manasan, Rosario G. - 2009
This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and noncontributory social protection programs that are currently in place as part of the government's portfolio of social protection interventions, including social insurance (SSS, GSIS, PhilHealth), social welfare programs (e.g., Pantawid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421144
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Réduction linéaire de cotisations patronales à la sécurité sociale et financement alternatif
Jeanfils, Philippe; Delhez, Philippe; Van Meensel, Luc; … - 2006
La Belgique est un des pays européens où le coin fiscal et parafiscal sur les revenus du travail est le plus élevé tandis que le taux d'emploi y est plus faible que la moyenne européenne. Elle est également caractérisée par le rôle prédominant exercé par les cotisations sociales dans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506603
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Social Welfare Reform
Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 25-26
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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028659
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Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2000
This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262381
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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262555
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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265550