Herce, Jose A; Sosvilla-Rivero, Simon; Lucio, Juan Jose de - In: Public Choice 109 (2001) 1-2, pp. 55-68
In this paper, we test for causality between GDP growth and social protection expenditure in the European Union. To that end, we apply Hsiao's (1981) sequential procedure to data for twelve EU countries along the 1970-94 period. Our results suggest that, for Belgium, Germany, Ireland,...