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Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

higher. Retirement is desirable in this case, and social security transfers are the means by which such retirement is induced …

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The Political Economy of Redistribution in the U.S. in the Aftermath of World War II and the Delayed Impacts of the Great Depression - Evidence and Theory

Beetsma, Roel; Cukierman, Alex; Giuliodori, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding … share of post-War transfers may thus be interpreted as a delayed fulfilment of a, not fully satisfied, popular demand for …

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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Caeyers, Bet; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

charge of food transfers, in terms of free food aid or food-for-work programs. We find that although targeting is clearly …

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Assessing Welfare Accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...

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Positive Arithmetic of the Welfare State

Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Why does the largest US welfare programme select its recipients by their age, rather than by their earnings or wealth? In a dynamic efficient overlapping generation economy with earnings heterogeneity, we analyze a welfare system composed of a within-cohort redistribution scheme and an unfunded...

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Early Retirement

Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Generous early retirement provisions account for a large proportion of the drop in the labour force participation of elderly workers. The aim of this paper is to provide a political-economic explanation of the wide spread adoption of early retirement. We suggest that the political support for...

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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … twofold. First, we estimate the propensity to consume from government cash transfers separately for each transfer type, and … income. Second, we propose a new decomposition technique to disentangle the impact of changes in government transfers and …

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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programmes. We argue that the heart of...

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East Germany: The Economics of Kinship

von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Assessments of the East German transition commonly focus narrowly on the size of financial transfers from the West to …

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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

current welfare state systems – where welfare services are financed predominantly out of general taxes – people would make … taxes; and another in which public-sector expenditures on welfare services are financed through payments from people … be constrained to those of the balanced-budget variety: total (economy-wide) taxes on each of the welfare accounts would …

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