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Systeme Der Sozialen Sicherung in Ägypten : Entwicklungstendenzen, Erfahrungen Anderer Geber Und Ansatzpunkte Für Die Deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Social Protection in Egyp...
Loewe, Markus - 2013
This paper analyses Egypt's social protection systems. It asks why poverty is so widespread and why – despite the country's numerous sophisticated social protection systems - social risks are a major contributing factor to poverty in Egypt. It concludes that reforms are due. The existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086679
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030160
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969392
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280758
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391551
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
Koethenbuerger, 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...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318763
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427759
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404578
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160756