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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790223
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Relative or absolute poverty in the US and EU? The battle of the rates
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836184
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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?
Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619764
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Poverty in Europe and the USA : Exchanging Official Measurement Methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - 2008
Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220150
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055212
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494349
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The commitment value of prefunded pensions
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot … commit. We focus on sustainable plans, where optimal nonlinear pensions are not reneged on by sequential governments …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405644
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Population aging, social security and fiscal limits
Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018
We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864671
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590057
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What Ownership Society: Debating Housing and Social Security Reform in the United States
Béland, Daniel - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006
over President Bush's "ownership society" in the fields of housing and pensions, this article underlines the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635200