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Feed the Beast : Finance Capitalism and the Spread of Pension Privatisation in Europe

Naczyk, Marek - 2015

development of private pensions as a secondary outcome of welfare state retrenchment, we argue that governments have actively …

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Survivor Funds

Forman, Jonathan Barry - 2017

This Article explains how to create “survivor funds” — short-term investment funds that would pay more to those investors who live until the end of the fund's term than to those who die before then. For example, instead of just investing in a 10-year bond and dividing the proceeds among...

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The Potential of Microinsurance for Social Protection

Deblon, Yvonne; Loewe, Markus - 2013

Many informal sector employees in developing and emerging countries lack access to reliable forms of social protection: They cannot afford to buy private insurance, they are not covered by social insurance, and they are not entitled to social assistance. Therefore, micro-insurance schemes have...

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Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? : A median voter approach

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor); … - 2005

We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by political process. The inefficiency of social security...

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The Nordic welfare model in an open European labor market

Bratsberg, Bernt; Røed, Knut - 2015

Is it possible to sustain an ambitious and redistributive Nordic welfare state in a Europe with open borders? Drawing … overrepresentation in welfare programs. This pattern extends to post-accession labor migrants from Eastern Europe, who quickly experience … high rates of unemployment. The article discusses possible avenues for making the welfare state "migration robust." We …

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Does the rise of China lead to the fall of European welfare states?

Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2021

political support for social insurance can decline in spite of the risk effect. We construct an empirical measure of welfare …

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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Köthenbürger, Marko - 2010

One of the stylized facts of unfunded social security programs is that programs are larger in size, measured relative to the GDP, the tighter the link between pension claims and past earnings. We provide a political economy explanation of this stylized fact in a median voter model, where people...

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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Köthenbürger, 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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De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers : an approach for monitoring the accessibility and levels of income support

Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022

Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....

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When distrust goes viral : causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020

undermined trust in politicians, the media, the EU and social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is mainly due to economic …

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