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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. …
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Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? : A median voter approach
Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor);  … - 2005
security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by …
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2010
voters, earnings-related systems are more attractive both because of less intragenerational redistribution and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759164
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
Koethenbuerger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu; Profeta, Paola - 2021
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. Our key insight is that linking benefits to past earnings (less redistributiveness) reduces the efficiency cost of social security (due to endogenous...
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Equity and Redistribution between Generations : A Challenge for the Future of Pensions and All Social Protection Schemes
Guillemard, Anne-Marie - 2010
a number of questions on the future of pensions and on the underlying principles of redistribution between generations … redistribution seems inadequate and how, in discussing the future of such redistribution, there are new forms of life cycle … organization and redistribution of worktime and compensated inactivity across this life cycle that need to be considered. This …
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Population Aging, Social Security and Fiscal Limits
Heer, Burkhard - 2018
We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...
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Feed the Beast : Finance Capitalism and the Spread of Pension Privatisation in Europe
Naczyk, Marek - 2015
Why, since the mid-1980s, have so many European governments decided fiscally to support the development of private retirement savings accounts? Whereas analysts of pension reform in affluent democracies have traditionally considered the development of private pensions as a secondary outcome of...
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Decentralization and intra-country transfers in the Great Recession : the case of the European Union
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 54 (2020) 7, pp. 931-941
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The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe : the role of size, pro-poorness and child orientation
Diris, Ron; Vandenbroucke, Frank; Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 745-775
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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update
De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John R.; Sutherland, Holly - 2015
This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
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