CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Horvath, Agnes |
|---|---|
| Title | Essays on pension Systems, Mobility and Welfare Policies |
| Summary | The dissertation consists of three self-contained papers. Chapter 1 is a theoretical paper dealing with the question whether the pension treatment of temporary migrants from Eastern European countries to other EU countries has an impact on migration decisions in terms of the length of their stay and their choice of the host country. Chapter 2 is an interdisciplinary paper discussing public preferences on poverty assistance, containing both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis. In the model, the optimal level of compensation for the poor is based on the deservingness principle and observable income is used as a noisy signal for e ort. In the empirical part, the two propositions of the model, namely the existence of the poverty-assistance paradox and the poverty-stereotype interaction are tested. Chapter 3 is focusing on the question why pension expenditures rose so rapidly in all countries during the postwar period and with so little political opposition. We extend the simple model of redistribution of Persson and Tabellini (2002) to investigate the generational conflict between the young and the old. We introduce different pension system types and immigration to the simplified original model. In addition, based on the special Eurobarometer 56.1, we carry out an empirical test on the hypothesis that people would redistribute more towards pensioners in those countries that are characterized by a Bismarckian pension system than those with flat rate pension systems if they think that the poor does not deserve social assistance. Note that Chapter 3 is linked to chapters 1 and 2 by combining different pension system types, migration and the deservingness principle. |
| Supervisor | András Simonovits, Gábor Kézdi |
| Department | Economics PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/cphhoa01.pdf |
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