The analysis of social policy impact over the labour market focuses on assessing the interdependence between the social protection system and the labour market, and performance of the social policies management, determinant factor in order to achieve simultaneous acceleration for social...

The aim of the paper is to examine the progressivity of the pension security in the Czech Republic using an intragenerational longitudinal approach. Since there is no available Czech panel data we modelled pseudo-panel data on lifetime earnings of employees on the basis of real crosssectional...

The economic theory of fertility acknowledges the importance of old age pensions for individual fertility decisions. However, theoretical predictions regarding the sign of this relation differ from altruistic fertility models (positive) to non-altruistic fertility models (negative). First, a...

Developmentalism versus economic liberalism in the populist period and social public expenditure - This article aims to investigate social public expenditure during the populist period (1930-1964) by carrying out a comparative analysis of the 'authoritarian' and 'democratic' ages. In addition,...

One of the government’s main functions is to protect the population against a number of social risks. Hence, replacement incomes are provided in the event of unemployment, old age or occupational disability. Income supplements are granted to compensate in part for the financial burden...

Resumen: El presente artículo examina la evolución y composición del gasto total y el gasto social y su participación en el PIB en el período 2007 - 2010, tanto del gobierno Nacional como en el Departamental con el fin de hacer un comparativo del comportamiento de éstos y observar hacia...

Cost for the three major mandatory social programs; Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have increased at a rate much higher than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and thus revenue. As a result, these programs account for a larger portion of the U.S. budget. As projections continue to rise...

This paper evaluates the drastic reforms of Japanese public health insurance initiated in 2006. We employ a computable general equilibrium framework to numerically examine the reforms for an aging Japan in the dynamic context of overlapping generations. Our simulation produced the following...

Resumen: El informe del Instituto de Estudios para la Paz de Estocolmo (SIPRI) sobre el aumento del gasto militar en América Latina, suscitó preocupaciones por una supuesta carrera armamentista en la región. Empero, no existen razones para evocar tal posibilidad. En respuesta, el presente...

A tanulmány nemzetközi statisztikák alapján vizsgálja meg, mennyire helytálló a mai neoliberális főáram ama állítása, hogy a jóléti állam haldoklik, redisztribúciós szerepe a fejlett ipari országokban csökken, visszafejlődik. Elemzi a szociális közkiadások százalékos...