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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute
Forteza, Alvaro - 2015
Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...
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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This version: March 20, 2014
We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. We argue that interactions between the two risks are important for this question. One is a direct interaction in the form of a countercyclical variance of idiosyncratic...
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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk
Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This Version: July 9, 2014
We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. We argue that interactions between the two risks are important for this question. One is a direct interaction in the form of a countercyclical variance of idiosyncratic...
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
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Social Security and Gender in Uruguay : An Analysis of the Differences in Pension Access (Seguridad Social y Género en Uruguay: Un Análisis de las Diferencias de Acceso a la Jubila...
Bucheli, Marisa - 2014
In Uruguay, the pension programs cover over 90% of the elderly. Men are more likely to be eligible for the contributory …
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What Incentives to Retirement Does Social Security Provide? The Uruguayan Case (Qué Incentivos al Retiro Genera la Seguridad Social? El Caso Uruguayo) (Spanish)
Alvarez, Ignacio - 2010
The activity rate of mature men has increased in Uruguay in recent decades. This trend is remarkably different from … implicit in the main social security program of Uruguay. We find that mature men tend to experience significant social security … wealth losses if they postpone retirement. These losses tend to represent a greater share of workers wages in Uruguay than in …
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Uruguayan Workers Retirement and Social Security (El Retiro de los Trabajadores Uruguayos y la Seguridad Social)
da Silva, Natalia - 2010
We analyze recent trends of the activity rates and retirement of Uruguayan old age workers. We find that in Uruguay …. On the contrary, in recent decades the activity rate of old age men has been growing in Uruguay. In the case of women …
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Pay-roll contribution financed social protection programs in Uruguay
Forteza, Alvaro; Caristo, Anna M.; Ferreira-Coimbra, Natalia - 2005
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Social Security, Unemployment, and Growth
Bräuninger, Michael - 2004
The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and...
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Social Security : Unemployment and Immigration
Copeland, Craig - 2002
This article investigates the impact of increases and decreases in the level of net immigration in the United States as well as the effect of changes in the unemployment rate on the financial status of the Social Security program. After presenting the historical values of these important...
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