, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In …

, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …

1. Introduction -- 2. The evil of a premature death -- 3. An insurance against a short life -- 4. Reversing retirement … insurance against the risk of an early death. In contrast to the way in which economically developed countries provide ways of … insuring citizens against other possibilities, such as unemployment and disease, no such social insurance mechanism exists for …

tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main section besides the introduction … third section, the relative merits of social and private insurance are analyzed as well as the design of optimum insurance …

need for personal responsibility. Despite objections, social insurance-from workers' compensation laws to pension … daily life. Any rationale for a system of social insurance has to account for these questions: How do we assess the burden … insurance, from the idea of social accountability through the advanced welfare state of collective responsibility and risk. At …