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Redistribution within the tax-benefit system in Austria

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Lorenz, Hanno; … - 2020

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a comprehensive view and include not only direct taxation and cash benefits, but also indirect taxes and in-kind transfers. We look at two kinds of redistribution: between the...

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Can helping the sick hurt the able? : incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform

Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2015

Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...

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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement : Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1997

This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...

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Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1998

The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...

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Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 2011

This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...

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Default Options and Insurance Demand

Robinson, Peter John - 2020

,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor … among homeowners with little to no flood-related experience: in the Netherlands defaults increase the likelihood of insuring …

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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024

This paper analyses deviations from full employment in EU countries, compared with the US and the UK. We apply the … Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … 1970-2022, we find full employment episodes in selected EU countries (Germany, Sweden, Austria, Finland) during the 1970s …

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The relative importance of symmetric and asymmetric shocks : the case of United Kingdom and euro area

Peersman, Gert - 2007

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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