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Longevity gap and pension contribution cap
Simonovits, András - 2022
well-chosen cap has an additional advantage: it limits the unintended income redistribution from the short-lived to the … cap on the social welfare and the unintended income redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198976
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Using HHoT to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators
Marchal, Sarah; Siöland, Linus; Goedemé, Tim - 2019
This paper aims to show how the newly developed Hypothetical Household Tool of the EUROMOD microsimulation model can be used to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators. It does so by updating the CSB’s Minimum Income Protection Indicators (CSB-MIPI) dataset using EUROMOD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008564
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The Financial Well-Being of Elderly People in Europe and the Redistributive Effects of Minimum Pension Schemes
Figari, Francesco - 2013
. In particular, we quantify the extent to which these schemes contribute to alleviate elderly poverty across Europe …, they are more effective in reducing elderly poverty rates. On the other hand, they fail to ensure a level of financial well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077023
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Minimum income schemes in Europe : is there a trade-off with activation policies?
Iacono, Roberto - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661411
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Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion : evidence from community-living older adults in China
Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Chen, Xi; Tang, Gaojie - 2019
Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140187
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Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion : evidence from community-living older adults in China
Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Chen, Xi; Tang, Gaojie - 2020
Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149120
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Inequality and Poverty Across Generations in the European Union
Chen, Tingyun - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926905
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Public Transfers and the Age-Profile of Poverty in Europe
Franco, Daniele - 2012
potentially vulnerable group of the population: their poverty can affect human capital accumulation and have long lasting effects … document that the poverty rates of these two age groups with respect to the other components of the population differ … considerably across European countries. These differences are largely due to the different anti-poverty effectiveness of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111800
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The distributional impact of social transfers in the European Union : evidence from the ECHP
Heady, Christopher John; Mitrakos, Theodōros M.; … - 2001
comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001624315
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The distributional impact of social transfers in the European Union : evidence from the ECHP
Heady, Christopher John; Mitrakos, Theodōros M.; … - 2001
comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403489