Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …

compensate for the lack of political participation and accountability, free public health and education systems, generous food …

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 …

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 …

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

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …

systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …