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A New Pension Formula: For More Fairness and Less Old-Age Poverty
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 8, pp. 50-54
principle seeks to hold pension claims at a specific ratio to paid contributions so that a redistribution of income does not … take place. In truth, however, there is a massive redistribution in favor of wage earners with higher incomes, as these … would also lead to significantly less old-age poverty among long-term contributors to the pension system. …
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Neue Rentenformel: mehr Gerechtigkeit und weniger Altersarmut
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 5, pp. 82-86
Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung ist nach dem Prinzip der Teilhabe-Äquivalenz aufgebaut. Dies soll bewirken, dass die Rentenansprüche in einer bestimmten Relation zu den gezahlten Beiträgen stehen, also vorrangig keine Umverteilung stattfindet. In Wahrheit gibt es jedoch eine massive...
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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008
German Pension Insurance Office on a large cohort of pensioners to find out how the old-age poverty rate would be affected by …
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Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
German Pension Insurance Office on a large cohort of pensioners to find out how the old-age poverty rate would be affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963982
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Neue Rentenformel: mehr Gerechtigkeit und weniger Altersarmut
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 5, pp. 82-86
Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung ist nach dem Prinzip der Teilhabe-Äquivalenz aufgebaut. Dies soll bewirken, dass die Rentenansprüche in einer bestimmten Relation zu den gezahlten Beiträgen stehen, also vorrangig keine Umverteilung stattfindet. In Wahrheit gibt es jedoch eine massive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070628
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A New Pension Formula: For More Fairness and Less Old-Age Poverty
Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 8, pp. 50-54
principle seeks to hold pension claims at a specific ratio to paid contributions so that a redistribution of income does not … take place. In truth, however, there is a massive redistribution in favor of wage earners with higher incomes, as these … would also lead to significantly less old-age poverty among long-term contributors to the pension system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026897
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De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers : an approach for monitoring the accessibility and levels of income support
Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Four levers of redistribution : the impact of tax and transfer systems on inequality reduction
Guillaud, Elvire; Olckers, Matthew; Zemmour, Michaël - 2017
Using observational micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we assess the redistributive impact of tax and transfer configurations across 22 OECD countries for the period 1999-2013. After recovering new tax data (employer social contributions), we measure the reduction of income...
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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 individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
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