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Lindbeck, Assar - 2008

It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several...

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Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2002

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We...

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Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners Social Insurance?

Olsson, Martin; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2011

We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner's benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner's benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply elasticity....

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Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance in a Lifetime Perspective

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Birch Sørensen, Peter - 2006

Advances in information technology have improved the administrative feasibility of redistribution based on lifetime earnings recorded at the time of retirement. We study optimal lifetime income taxation and social insurance in an economy in which redistributive taxation and social insurance...

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Improving the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off: Mandatory Savings Accounts for Social Insurance

Bovenberg, Lars; Birch Sørensen, Peter - 2003

In the modern welfare state a substantial part of an individual's tax bill is transferred back to the same individual taxpayer in the form of social transfers. This provides a rationale for financing part of social insurance through mandatory savings accounts. We analyze the behavioral and...

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Savings Accounts and the Life-Cycle Approach to Social Insurance

Birch Sørensen, Peter; Hansen, Martin Ino; Bovenberg, … - 2006

Using Danish data, we find that about three fourths of the taxes levied to finance public transfers actually finance benefits that do not redistribute between people but redistribute income over the life cycle of individual taxpayers. This provides a rationale for financing part of social...

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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America

Barrientos, Armando - 2011

The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....

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Moral hazard in a mutual health-insurance system: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2009

This paper studies moral hazard in a sickness-insurance fund that provided the model for socialinsurance schemes around the world. The German Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to provide sickness, accident, and death benefits for miners. By the mid-nineteenth century,...

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The Political Setting of Social Security Contributions in Europe in the Business Cycle

Pusch, Toralf; Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2011

Die Einnahmen der Sozialversicherung unterliegen dem Einfluss des Konjunkturzyklus. Soll die Beitragserhebung der … Sozialversicherung nicht prozyklisch schwanken, muss die Höhe der Beitragssätze zyklusübergreifend festgelegt werden. Diese Arbeit geht … der Frage nach, ob die Änderungen der Beitragssätze zur Sozialversicherung in europäischen Ländern diesem Grundsatz folgen …

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