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. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … effects of social assistance, and the redistributive effects, and the incentives and distortion mechanisms that transfer …
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How much of an internal rate of return would a sustainable pay-as-you-go pension system offer current and future generations equally? The answer is the sum of the Long-Run Biological Interest Rates (LBIR), the real-world equivalent of Samuelson's (1958) biological interest rate, and future...
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short- and long-term costs of these arrangements against spending on other social protection interventions, notably poverty …
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Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...
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When private transfers respond endogenously to the retirement decision of the elderly, they directly lower the opportunity cost of not working and magnify the income effect of public transfers. In this paper we show that the interaction of private transfers with the labor market decision of the...
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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … partnership, which treats equally labor and capital income, sets positive incentives for the formation of human, financial, and … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
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Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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such programmes on incomes and poverty during crises, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they are …
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incentives and information to improve the accuracy of employer reports can be an effective way to improve payroll-tax compliance. …
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incentives and information to improve the accuracy of employer reports can be an effective way to improve payroll-tax compliance. …
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