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After the Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster : Assessing a New Role for Re-Insurance, Social Insurance and Provident Fund Systems in Providing ‘Social Security for Natu...
Aspalter, Christian - 2013
Following the current Japan crisis with the multiple disasters of earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear disasters, it becomes clear that new policy solutions need to be found that enable larger risk pooling, covering of new risks and much larger risks, especially natural disasters or man-made...
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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...
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New Avenues to be Opened for Social Protection in the Arab World
Loewe, Markus - 2013
The article’s subject is social protection in the Arab world. Giving the example of Egypt, 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 it. It concludes that reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160927
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Caring for the Urban Middle Class : The Political Economy of Social Protection in Arab Countries
Loewe, Markus - 2013
Social protection schemes in Arab countries show deficits regarding efficiency and social fairness. Some Arab countries spend a fifth of their GDP on social protection but the bulk of funds goes to a relatively small group of urban middle income earners or is lost on half-way for administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039051
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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020
The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...
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The Rising Cost of Social Security Disability Insurance
DeHaven, Tad - 2013
insurance has become more like permanent unemployment insurance or a general welfare program. SSDI has become financially …
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Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security Reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur - 2021
The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323004
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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms
Milligan, Kevin S.; Wise, David A. - 2011
This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...
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Social security in an analytically tractable overlapping generations model with aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This Version: September 22, 2014
over the life-cycle. The interactions appear even though the two risks are orthogonal and they amplify the welfare … consequences of introducing social security. On the one hand, the interactions increase the welfare benefits from insurance. On the … other hand, they can in- or decrease the welfare costs from crowding out of capital formation. This ambiguous effect on …
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Social security in an analytically tractable overlapping generations model with aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2015 - This Version: April 13, 2015
are orthogonal by construction. While the interactions unambiguously increase the welfare benefits from insurance, they … can in- or decrease the welfare costs from crowding out of capital formation. The net effect depends on the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061588