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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the life-cycle and are funded by high taxes, play an increasingly important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911179
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289471
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the life-cycle and are funded by high taxes, play an increasingly important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908404
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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061671
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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labour marketspace for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524903
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Demographic Change Across the Globe - Maintaining Social Security in Ageing Economies
Peeters, Marga - 2012
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labor market space for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113360
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
these programs involve different types of subsidies and taxes, sometimes implicit. Because of design problems and the lack … of coordination/integration between programs, these subsidies/taxes tend to cause four problems: 1) they can reduce … savings) and the redistributive function (transfers) of the social protection system in order to expand coverage, improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Social Protection Floors Volume 3 : Governance and Financing
Ortiz, Isabel; Schmitt, Valérie; De, Loveleen - 2017
This volume describes mechanisms to build social protection floors, such as a national dialogue in Myanmar, reaching rural dwellers in South Africa, worker facilitation centres in India, single window services in Mongolia, legal systems in Brazil and South Africa, labour inspection in China,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123433
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Investing more in universal social protection : filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination
Bierbaum, Mira; Schmitt, Valérie - 2022
Large and persistent gaps in social protection coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy are linked to many barriers, including high levels of informality, institutional fragmentation of the social protection system and significant financing gaps for social protection in a context of limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337729