
The Economics of Social Protection
Pierre Pestieau(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. September 2023
Book
Hardback
60 pages
978-1-009-45415-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 section 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 a whole. In the third section, the relative merits of social and private insurance are analyzed as well as the design of optimum insurance contract with emphasis on health and pensions. The last section focuses on the implications of asymmetric information that may lead governments to adopt policies that would otherwise be rejected in a perfect information setting.
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Language
English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-45415-5 (9781009454155)
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Content
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.