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The work capability assessment and a "real world" test of incapacity : considerations from, and for, quantitative research
Berthoud, Richard - 2011
The Work Capability Assessment governs entitlement to the Employment and Support Allowance - the social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300490
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Longevity gap and public pensions : a minimal model
Simonovits, András - 2021
The strong and increasing positive correlation between lifetime income and life expectancy (the longevity gap) has recently been widely studied. In this paper we employ the simplest, minimal model to demonstrate the impact of this long-neglected fact on the various types of public pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601797
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The Efficiency and Employment Enhancing Effects of Social Welfare
Altman, Morris - 2010
upon the economy in terms of labor supply, production costs, and employment. However, the conventional model is built upon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148771
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The welfare effects of asset mean-testing income support
Wellschmied, Felix - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 217-249
This paper studies the savings and employment effects of the asset means-test in US income support programs using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432849
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Cohort-Specific Measures of Lifetime Social Security Taxes and Benefits
Leimer, Dean - 2008
This paper develops estimates of lifetime money's worth and redistributional outcomes under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program for all past, present, and future birth cohorts affected by the program through the cohort born in 2100. The estimates presented in this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215868
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Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop and estimate a life-cycle consumption savings model in which observed genetic variation is allowed to affect wealth accumulation through several distinct channels. We focus on genetic markers that predict educational attainment, aggregated into a predictive index called a polygenic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362004
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Social norms and moral hazard
Dufwenberg, Martin; Lundholm, Michael - 1998
The probability of income loss depends on talent and effort. Effort has positive externalities and therefore individuals are proportion to their perceived diligence. The social norm requires more effort from individuals perceived as more talented, but talent is private information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588906
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Welfare benefit reforms and employment
Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel - 2017
implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … benefits in favour of income subsidies (social benefits) reduces employment in general equilibrium and also the income of low … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624217
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"Living" wage, class conflict and ethnic strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel (contributor) - 2008
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003765832
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Social policy targeting and binary information transfer between surveys
Gottlieb, Daniel; Kushnir, Leonid - 2009
In this paper we develop a methodology for identifying a population group surveyed latently in the (target) survey relevant for further processing, for example poverty calculations, but surveyed explicitly in another (source) survey, not suitable for such processing. Identification is achieved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848922