I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an …

This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … between incomeinequality and redistribution. This chapter first shows that even exogenously given ERIaffects the relationship … between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various …

Krankenversicherung (GKV) daher die Forschungsfrage, ob in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung Generationengerechtigkeit umgesetzt wird … bzw. wer von ihrer Umsetzung einen Nutzen hat.Zun?chst wird auf Grundlage der Theorie der Neuen Politischen ?konomik … evaluated from the point of view of public choice theory to see if, and if yes, to what extent, it is intergenerationally …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …

Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income … fourth part documents the increased redistribution of income achieved through taxes and social benefits. The fifth part …

The question of who benefits and who loses from the transition, the channels and mechanisms of redistribution of wealth … in the post-communist period, and the relation between redistribution and monetary regime are, in our opinion … between the dynamics of redistribution and the change in monetary regime. This is presented in Part 2 and is discussed in Part …

efficiency losses without achieving any net redistribution. …

redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for …

create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …