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How did Feldstein (1985) undervalue the optimal level of social security benefits?
Simonovits, András - 2017
In his seminal model (Feldstein, 1985), the government operates a social security system to counter the representative worker's myopia. (i) For a complete myope, he determined a sizable optimal tax rate (and the corresponding benefit level). (ii) For a partially shortsighted worker, he...
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The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions : VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany
Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was tested, social security is thus good for growth. A...
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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers
Simonovits, András - 2017
We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...
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Challenges of Formal Social Security Systems in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011
The present paper discusses issues of challenges of social security systems in Sudan. Following parameters advanced by ILO and UNCOSOC, those systems are analyzed. The conclusions focus on their applicability that faces axial difficulties mainly presented in the state of institutional...
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
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Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children : Evidence from Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important … distinguishes between exchange of both financial and other kinds of transfers between elderly parents and adult children and then …
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Herdis … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279935
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275959
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356602