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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike … reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting skills, reducing governments’ budgetary pressures …
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
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Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance
Clemens, Jeffrey - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2012
In the early 1990s, several US states enacted community rating regulations to equalize the private health insurance …
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Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance
Clemens, Jeffrey P. - 2014
In the early 1990s, several U.S. states enacted community rating regulations to equalize the health insurance premiums …
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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers
Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013
small and dominated by non-redistributive schemes such as contributory pensions. Education coverage has increased steadily … towards universal health coverage, the financing and organisation of the health care system could be improved to raise the …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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Confronting the Endogeneity of Economy, Policy, and Politics : Inequality & Unemployment, Redistribution & Social Insurance, and Political Participation
Franzese, Robert J.; Hays, Jude C. - 2014
Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … indicates a system of endogenous relations between economic performance (unemployment/income-distribution), social policy …
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
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