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