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Optimal Income Taxation with Uncertain Earnings : A Synthesis

Boadway, Robin - 2011

ex ante identical households and the no-risk case with heterogeneous abilities come out as special cases …

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Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2009

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by...

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Social Security Systems, Human Capital, and Growth in a Small Open Economy

Kaganovich, Michael - 2008

We consider a small open economy in which the level of public education funding is determined by popular vote. We show that growth can be enhanced by the introduction of pay-as-you-go pensions even if the growth rate of aggregate wages falls short of the interest rate. The reason is that the...

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Population Aging, Social Security and Fiscal Limits

Heer, Burkhard - 2018

We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...

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Globalization, Jobs, and Welfare : The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution

Ranjan, Priya - 2015

This paper studies the welfare and policy implications of globalization when risk averse workers face the risk of … workers against labor income risk, but the latter enhances welfare more if job destruction is the source of unemployment. When …

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Families and Social Security

Fehr, Hans - 2016

augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married … small, marriage serves as an insurance device against longevity risk for the surviving partner …

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Anyone for Social Security Reform?

Sen, Partha - 2016

A reform of a pay-as-you-go social security makes the pensioners worse off and the working generations better off in the period of the reform (in a dynamically efficient economy without altruism). The observed reluctance across all age groups to support such reforms is usually explained by the...

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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?

Caliendo, Frank - 2009

This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...

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Migration and the Welfare State : Dynamic Political-Economy Theory

Razin, Assaf - 2010

We model an overlapping-generations economy with two skill levels: skilled and unskilled. The welfare-state is modeled simply by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner. Therefore, some (the unskilled workers and old retirees) are net beneficiaries...

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Portability of Social Benefits International Trade in Services : Some Reflections

Valdes-Prieto, Salvador - 2014

In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...

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