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In-kind transfers can provide insurance benefits when prices of consumption goods vary, as is common in developing countries. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers are welfare improving to beneficiaries relative to cash if the covariance between the marginal utility of income...
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In-kind transfers can provide insurance benefits when prices of consumption goods vary, as is common in developing countries. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers are welfare improving to beneficiaries relative to cash if the covariance between the marginal utility of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331080
)Efficiency and equity are the two aspects of pension system ,and the aging problem,labor productivity,ma- croeconomic environment …,et al. will affect the relationship between efficiency and equity.(2)Parameter adjusting and Structure reforming is a good … narrow the wealth gap ,keep some redistributive function is necessary.(4)D- uring a pension reforming,not only the equity is …
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The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of...
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unique database of German micro data to provide empirical evidence for the analysis of the equity and efficiency effects as … base parameters are crucial for the effects of flat tax reforms in terms of equity and efficiency. A flat rate tax with a …
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conflict between the axioms of Pareto principle, time consistency, and equity requiring society to reduce inequality regardless … of the past. We argue that responsibility for past choices should be taken into account and thus the equity axiom is not … compelling. Then, we introduce another form of equity that takes the past into consideration and is compatible with time …
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, we address both efficiency and distribution issues. The focus is on the effects of user prices on individual incentives … and choices. We identify circumstances under which a market system of user prices not only enhances aggregate efficiency …
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This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of...
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This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500172
, we address both efficiency and distribution issues. The focus is on the effects of user prices on individual incentives … and choices. We identify circumstances under which a market system of user prices not only enhances aggregate efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319430