Assessing welfare accounts

Arbeitspapier

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return, individuals? welfare benefits are paid from their accounts. The paper uses a large panel of individual income data to examine how the adoption of universal welfare accounts may affect economic activity. We find that this policy could be designed so as to reduce social insurance expenditure considerably, improve the incentives to work and save, all with relatively small redistributive impact.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 533

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Health ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
• Thema: welfare accounts ; social insurance ; taxes ; welfare state benefits ; welfare reform ; Soziale Sicherung ; Sozialversicherung ; Sozialreform ; Sozialversicherungsbeitrag ; Sparen ; Schweden

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fölster, Stefan ; Gidehag, Robert ; Orszag, Jonathan Michael ; Snower, Dennis J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2862
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ