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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … effects of social assistance, and the redistributive effects, and the incentives and distortion mechanisms that transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124448
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Poverty risk among older immigrants in a Scandinavian welfare state
Jakobsen, Vibeke; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2016
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … become eligible for State pension. Poverty rates by national background are described using alternative household concepts …. Next, a number of background factors of relevance for poverty are summarized. We focus on age, gender, marital status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476529
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Poverty Risk Among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Jakobsen, Vibeke - 2016
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … become eligible for State pension. Poverty rates by national background are described using alternative household concepts …. Next, a number of background factors of relevance for poverty are summarized.We focus on age, gender, marital status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990866
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The Threat to the German Welfare State
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
Germany is in a dilemma. Low wage competition via product and factor markets increases the demands on the welfare state … taking and economic growth. However, it also has severe moral hazard effects by reducing work incentives. To help the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321111
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Kehrt die Altersarmut zurück? : atypische Beschäftigung als Problem der Rentenpolitik
Hinrichs, Karl - In: Les nouveaux défis de l'Etat social, (pp. 19-36). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003736989
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Political economy of pension reforms : selected general issues and the Polish pension reform case
Góra, Marek - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
The institutional structures of the various types of European welfare state were established around extra revenues called the "demographic dividend" that used to be easily available throughout the decades of the 20st century. They, however, ceased to be available at the end of that century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725080
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Life-cycle unemployment, retirement, and parametric pension reform
Fisher, Walter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011
This paper investigates the consequences of pension reform for life-cycle unemployment and retirement. We find that (i) improving actuarial fairness in pension assessment not only boosts old age participation but also reduces unemployment among prime age workers and raises welfare; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686201
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Pension Reforms and the Political Economy of the Welfare State
van Vliet, Olaf - 2011
The last decennia, pension systems of many western countries have been under increasing pressure. Ageing populations have lead to situations of more liabilities than contributions, resulting in budgetary pressure in the short run and harming the financial sustainability in the long run....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179611
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Introducing an Austrian backpack in Spain
Sousa, João Brogueira de; Díaz-Saavedra, Julián; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 3, pp. 513-556
In an overlapping generations economy with incomplete insurance markets, the introduction of an employment fund-akin to the one introduced in Austria in 2003, also known as 'Austrian backpack'-can enhance production efficiency and social welfare. It complements the two classical systems of...
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European welfare state regimes and their generosity toward the elderly
Börsch-Supan, Axel (contributor) - 2006
system generosity and actual policy outcomes, such as unemployment and poverty rates among the young and the elderly, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720879