Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35593 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4135
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The introduction of the Social-democratic Danish financing system decreases inequality of incomes, but does not necessarily lead to less poverty. Tax payments are extremely high, whereas social contribution payments are relatively low leading to mixed incentives effects.
Subjects: 
Social security
welfare states
comparative analysis
EUROMOD
JEL: 
C81
D31
H24
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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