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The objective of this Element is to provide an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It relies on tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main sections besides the introduction. The first section is devoted to the design of social prot...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in public economics
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| Summary: |
The objective of this Element is to provide an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It relies on tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main sections besides the introduction. The first section is devoted to the design of social protection programs and their political sustainability. The second section assesses the efficiency and performance of social protection programs, and of the welfare state as as whole. In the third section, the relative merits of social and private insurance are analyzed as well as the design of optimum insurance contracts with emphasis on health and pensions. The last section focuses on the implications to adopt policies that would otherwise be rejected in a perfect information setting--back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 50 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [48]-50). |
| ISBN: |
9781009295482 1009295489 1009454153 9781009454155 |
| Index Number: | HV31 |
| CLC: | F061.4 |
| Call Number: | F061.4/P476 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Design and sustainability -- 3. Performance of the welfare state -- 4. Social protection and private insurance -- 5. Social policies under asymmetric information -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References. |