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Social Insurance and Redistribution
Boadway, Robin; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel; Marchand, Maurice; … - 2002
This paper studies optimal linear income taxation and redistributive social insurance when the former has the traditional labor distortion and the latter generates both ex ante and ex post moral hazard. Private insurance is available and individuals differ in labor productivity and in loss...
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Social Protection for the Informal Sector and the Informally Employed in Vietnam: Literature and data review
Huong, Nguyen Thi Lan; Tuan, Luu Quan; Meissner, Matthias; … - 2013
In the last 20 years, Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. But the coverage of social insurance is still low. Only around one in five workers is covered by the public social insurance scheme. Expanding the coverage of social insurance for informal sector workers and the...
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Redistribution and Insurance in the German Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …. In the long-term, the German welfare state clearly gives priority to insurance over redistribution. This gets even more …
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Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat
Schmähl, Winfried (contributor) - 2000
Weltweit wird über Reformen der sozialen Sicherung diskutiert. Eines der zentralen Themen dabei ist, welche Aufgaben der Staat übernehmen und was privaten Akteuren überlassen bleiben soll. Dabei geht es nicht nur um den Umfang, sondern auch um die Art staatlicher Tätigkeit, z. B. durch...
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Social Protection in the Philippines: Current State and Challenges
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C. - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....
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Wechselwirkungen zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und sozialer Sicherung
Schmähl, Winfried (contributor) - 2001
Frühverrentung als arbeitsmarktpolitisches Instrument mit erheblichen Auswirkungen auf die Sozialversicherung. Der Zusammenhang … Sozialversicherung - sowohl die Finanzierung als auch der Erwerb von Ansprüchen auf Sozialleistungen an die Erwerbstätigkeit anknüpfen …
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
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Soziale Umverteilung in Deutschland: Bestandsaufnahme und Ansätze zu einer rationalen Neukonzeption
Pimpertz, Jochen; Horschel, Nicole; Schröder, Christoph - 2009
Geflecht an Umverteilungsströmen. Die Effekte der staatlichen Redistribution lassen sich per Saldo kaum mehr nachvollziehen …. Auswertungen der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2003 zeigen aber, dass nicht nur eine weitgehend konsistente Umverteilung … einer Erwerbstätigenversicherung auszubauen, als ungeeignet. Eine solche Sozialversicherung für alle beseitigt weder …
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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America
Barrientos, Armando - 2011
The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....
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Savings Accounts and the Life-Cycle Approach to Social Insurance
Birch Sørensen, Peter; Hansen, Martin Ino; Bovenberg, … - 2006
Using Danish data, we find that about three fourths of the taxes levied to finance public transfers actually finance benefits that do not redistribute between people but redistribute income over the life cycle of individual taxpayers. This provides a rationale for financing part of social...
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