Social Insurance Based on Personal Savings Accounts: A Possible Reform Strategy for Over-burdened Welfare States?

In spite of some cutbacks in entitlements, many welfare states' spending has continuously increased over the past decades, leading to larger tax burdens and often higher marginal tax rates. Proposals for reform often facus on reduced social insurance benefits and more actuarial insurance premia. In this paper it is shown that such reforms may have a smaller potential for reducing the marginal tax rate than commonly assumed.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Folster, S.
Institutions:	Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN)
Subject:	WELFARE STATE \| SOCIAL INSURANCE

More details

Series:	Research Institute of Industrial Economics Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	40 pages
Classification:	D60 - Welfare Economics. General ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D69 - Welfare Economics. Other
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486490