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Enhancing the efficiency and equity of the tax system in Israel
Röhn, Oliver - 2020
Israel’s impressive technological capacity to further lower compliance costs and reduce tax evasion. Finally, excise taxes …
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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
reduced by roughly 25 percent or taxes will need to be increased by about 33 percent, or some combination to avoid benefit …
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The redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality in China
Cai, Meng; Yue, Ximing - 2017
The purpose of this work is to evaluate the redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality … before-transfer income? Second, given the scale and distribution of existing government social security transfers, will a … small percentage increase in the transfers narrow or widen the inequality of total income? By employing the methodologies of …
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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers
Simonovits, András - 2017
respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit …
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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
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Vulnerability of social institutions
Fall, Falilou; Bloch, Debbie; Höller, Peter; … - 2014
Social institutions face many challenges. The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test as it has left a legacy of high unemployment and high government debt in many countries. It also lowered potential output and thus the revenue base for social protection schemes. At the same time,...
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Vulnerability of social institutions : lessons from the recent crisis and historical episodes
Fall, Falilou; Pisu, Mauro; Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bloch, … - 2014
The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test for the vulnerability of social institutions. This paper assesses the vulnerability of social institutions in light of the current crisis, and surveys past episodes, when social institutions faced similar challenges. Public pay-as-you-go...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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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...
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