causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients …

causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients …

Income redistribution and insurance are core functions of welfare states. What role should the EU play in this domain … of insurance and redistribution. Through the establishment of interstate insurance, it would be a true ‘insurance union …', but, from the point of view of individual citizens, it would not become a direct Provider of insurance. It would engage in …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is …We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is …We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear …

still a role of debt relief as a form of insurance against 'pure labor income risk'?" We address this question by studying a …In this article, we evaluate in detail the role of debt forgiveness in altering the transmission of labor income risk … range of specifications for households' attitudes toward the intra- and inter-temporal properties of income risk alone. Our …