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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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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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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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Short-And Long-Term Poverty and Social Policy in a "Snakes and Ladders" Model of Growth

Cuevas, Alfredo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

Throughout the world, the great popularity of programs to protect those who may fall into poverty stands in contrast with the weakness of policies aimed at helping individuals who are already poor to overcome long-term poverty. In the paper, an OLG model with persistent poverty and limited...

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Equity and Fiscal Policy; The Income Distribution Effects of Taxation and Social Spending in Central America

Cubero, Rodrigo; Hollar, Ivanna Vladkova - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In...

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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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