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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2012

We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2010

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....

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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

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From Family Culture to Welfare State Design

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2013

We study how family culture affected the initial welfare state design. Our theoretical framework shows that pre-existing institutions — namely inheritance rules — shaped the within family intergenerational transmission of resources. This organization is embedded in the family culture that...

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Aging, saving, and public pensions in Japan

Horioka, Charles (contributor); Suzuki, Wataru (contributor) - 2007

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan’s household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan’s household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …’s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

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Social security for the aged : international perspectives

Rohrlich, George Friedrich - 1969

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Pension schemes and projection models in EU-25 Member States

2008

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