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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322474
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Income inequality, mobility, and the welfare state: A political economy model
Bossi, Luca; Gumus, Gulcin - 2011
inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278655
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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model
Bossi, Luca; Gumus, Gulcin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246698
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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287698
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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution - even when transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269668
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How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernandez, Rodrigo; … - 2022
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351771
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Minimum-income benefits in OECD countries: policy design, effectiveness and challenges
Immervoll, Herwig - 2009
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269647
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Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study
Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020
The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180165
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No claim, no pain: Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2010
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278674
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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from a survey experiment
Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martin - 2011
agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278820