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Distributive impacts of social security financing in Brazil

Soares, Sergei; Bloch, Carolina - 2019

This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...

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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute

Forteza, Alvaro - 2015

Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...

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Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study

Gustman, Alan L.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Samwick, Andrew; … - 2011

Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth percentiles, and even for 48 percent of wealth for those in...

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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk

Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This Version: July 9, 2014

We ask whether a PAYG-financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. We argue that interactions between the two risks are important for this question. One is a direct interaction in the form of a countercyclical variance of idiosyncratic...

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Social security and the interactions between aggregate and idiosyncratic risk

Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This version: March 20, 2014

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The political (in)stability of funded social security

Beetsma, Roel; Komada, Oliwia; Makarski, Krzysztof; … - 2021

We analyze the political stability of funded social security. Using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing social security assets in order to lower current taxes. The results and the driving mechanisms carry over to a fully-fledged and carefully...

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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010

In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...

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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice

Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010

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What Incentives to Retirement Does Social Security Provide? The Uruguayan Case (Qué Incentivos al Retiro Genera la Seguridad Social? El Caso Uruguayo) (Spanish)

Alvarez, Ignacio - 2010

The activity rate of mature men has increased in Uruguay in recent decades. This trend is remarkably different from … implicit in the main social security program of Uruguay. We find that mature men tend to experience significant social security … wealth losses if they postpone retirement. These losses tend to represent a greater share of workers wages in Uruguay than in …

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Uruguayan Workers Retirement and Social Security (El Retiro de los Trabajadores Uruguayos y la Seguridad Social)

da Silva, Natalia - 2010

We analyze recent trends of the activity rates and retirement of Uruguayan old age workers. We find that in Uruguay …. On the contrary, in recent decades the activity rate of old age men has been growing in Uruguay. In the case of women …

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