reduced by roughly 25 percent or taxes will need to be increased by about 33 percent, or some combination to avoid benefit …

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality … before-transfer income? Second, given the scale and distribution of existing government social security transfers, will a … small percentage increase in the transfers narrow or widen the inequality of total income? By employing the methodologies of …

respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit …

provides cash transfers and complementary social assistance to a range of vulnerable groups including children, the elderly and … insurance, although there are gaps in provision for the private sector. Social protection, in particular cash transfers, has …

particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the life-cycle and are funded by high taxes, play an increasingly important …