Social security and migration with endogenous skill upgrading

Article Abstract:

The joint redistributive effects of migration and pensions and reassessment of the sustainablility issue, raised in the existing economic literature, was investigated. The analysis shows that, migration causes redistributive effects which increase, across-group wage inequality. However, the endogenous educational response by residents partially offsets the redistributive impact of migration while creating additional interest groups.

International Affairs, Immigration & Emigration, Economics, Emigration and immigration, Economic theory

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Opting out of social security

Article Abstract:

A simple reform plan that is simply letting people opt out of social security identifies the winners and losers under social security relative to the common liability measure based on previous contribution. The study was based on the supposition in which agents make rational and fully informed decisions.

Social reform

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The politics of redistributive social insurance

Article Abstract:

The political support for a social insurance that includes elements of redistribution is analyzed in the presence of an imperfect private insurance alternative. It is found that mixed insurance, social insurance and private insurance, is politically impossible.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Health, Educatn & Welfare Programs, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Forecasts and trends, Social policy, Economic conditions, Market trend/market analysis

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