The Politics of Redistributive Social Insurance
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The politics of redistributive social insurance
This paper analyses the political support for a social insurance that includes elements of redistribution when there exists an imperfect private insurance alternative. Individuals differ both in their income and risk. The social insurance is compulsory and charges an income-related contribution with pooling of risks. The private insurance is voluntary and charges a contribution based on individ...
متن کاملOn the political sustainability of redistributive social insurance systems∗
We consider social insurance schemes with a two-part benefit formula: a flat (constant) term and a variable term which is proportional to individuals’ contributions. The factor of proportionality defines the type of social insurance. We adopt a two-stage political economy approach. At the first, constitutional stage, the type of social insurance is chosen “behind the veil of ignorance”, accordi...
متن کاملMobility and Redistributive Politics
There is a widespread concern that a greater mobility of individuals can undermine any attempt to redistribute income at the local level. In this paper we derive the equilibrium level of redistribution when both the rich and the poor are mobile (although in diierent degrees) and when each jurisdiction chooses its redistributive policy by majority voting. This leads to a fundamental interaction ...
متن کاملInequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics
Acknowledgments This project began with a workshop supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in May 2010, at which authors presented initial drafts of their chapters. We owe a special debt of thanks to Deanna Pikkov, who helped organize both the workshop and the successful SSHRC grant application that funded it. Numerous colleagues and graduate students ...
متن کاملRedistributive politics with distortionary taxation
We extend the discussion of redistributive politics across electoral systems to allow for taxation to be distortionary. We allow politicians to choose any tax rate between zero and unity and then redistribute the money collected. We build on the model put forward by Myerson (1993) and Lizzeri and Persico (2001 and 2005) to show that the use of distortionnary taxation can be understood as an ana...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.288410