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Jain, Sanjay - 2017

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The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe : the role of size, pro-poorness and child orientation

Diris, Ron; Vandenbroucke, Frank; Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 745-775

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What do we learn about redistribution effects of pension systems from internationally comparable measures of social security wealth?

Belloni, Michele; Brugiavini, Agar; Buia, Raluca E.; … - 2017

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Zakat, non-state welfare provision and redistribution in times of crisis : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

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On the political economy of social security and public education

Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a European economy with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...

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Intergenerational transfers in China : what are the patterns of the transfers and when do the transfers occur?

Xu, Jingjing - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 117-150

China's social safety net is still underdeveloped, hence family support in the form of intergenerational transfers often serves as a substitute for the public transfer system. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper finds that both upstream inter-vivos...

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