Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95648 
Autor:innen: 
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2013
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 993
Verlag: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain support for social insurance schemes can do so by lowering the replacement rate and allowing topping up contracts. The strategy is likely to be a partial explanation for the continued political support for welfare states with universal social insurance schemes such as those in Scandinavia.
Schlagwörter: 
Social insurance
Topping up
redistribution
JEL: 
H53
D72
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
341.3 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.