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Social security spending in South Eastern Europe : a country comparative review

Hagemejer, Krzysztof; Fultz, Elaine; Gál, Róbert - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2005

Provides a picture of social expenditures along a comparitive line. Outlines coverage and adequacy of benefits regarding old age, disability, unemployment, sickness, birth of a child, etc. Includes the poverty rates and dependency ratios as well as the pension contribution rates for eight...

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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key …

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Intergenerational redistribution of income through additional pension schemes

Dekkers, G.J.M. - Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre - 1994

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Annual versus lifetime income redistribution by social security

nelissen, jan - Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre - 1995

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European flexicurity: concepts (operational definitions), methodology (monitoring instruments), and policies (consistent implementations)

Tangian, Andranik - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, … - 2006

The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with advantages in employment and social security. The paper contains a brief history of the concept and its operational definition. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe,...

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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade

Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148

We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countriesâ€™ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...

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Personal Income Tax Reform and Revenue Potential in Transition

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hassan, Fareed - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure … prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of income. The paper shows that Bulgaria can …. Subsequently in the 1990s, Bulgaria implemented an income tax reform similar to the one advocated in this paper. …

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Influence of Social Institutions on Inequality in China

Uchimura, Hiroko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China. This study uses an inequality decomposition analysis approach comparing household survey data for 1988 with 1995.Three main results emerge from...

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The current status of our social welfare system

Munnell, Alicia H. - In: New England Economic Review (1987) Jul, pp. 3-12

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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Rebalancing and Inclusive Growth in China

Lee, Il Houng; Syed, Murtaza H.; Wang, Xin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the...

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