Search Results - subject:"welfare state"

An analysis of the chinese pension system pointing to the urgent need for reform

Zhang, Xiao; Chand, Satish - In: The Chinese economy : translations and studies 58 (2025) 2, pp. 174-188

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Interventionist preferences and the welfare state : the case of in-kind aid

Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Fan, Tony Q.; … - 2025

Why is in-kind aid a prominent feature of welfare systems? We present a lab-in-the-field experiment involving members of the general U.S. population and SNAP recipients. After documenting a widespread desire to limit recipients’ choices, we quantify the relative importance of (i) welfarist...

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The debt burden of job loss in a Nordic welfare state

Maczulskij, Terhi; Kanninen, Ohto; Karhunen, Hannu; … - 2025

Using linked employer-employee data combined with administrative data on debt enforcement, we analyze the impact of job loss on debt problems in Finland, where even 50% of income may be subject to wage garnishment for up to 25 years. Our results show that job loss, defined by plant closures and...

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The new normal? : central banks as social insurers and reputation-protecting political agents

Bateman, Will - In: Finance and society 11 (2025) 1, pp. 131-139

intellectual exercise. Éric Monnet's Balance of Power is a bold re-conceptualisation of monetary authority as a welfare-state …

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Interventionist preferences and the welfare state : the case of in-kind aid

Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Fan, Tony Q.; … - 2025

Why is in-kind aid a prominent feature of welfare systems? We present a lab-in-the-field experiment involving members of the general U.S. population and SNAP recipients. After documenting a widespread desire to limit recipients' choices, we quantify the relative importance of (i) welfarist...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015413279

Migration and the nordic welfare model

Andersen, Torben M. - 2025

Migration is vividly considered to be a particular challenge for extended welfare states like the Nordics since high taxes and entitlement to the social safety net and provision of welfare services may create both pull and push effects in migration. The financial viability of the model is...

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Reexamining the economic globalization-welfare state nexus : a Bayesian mixed approach to linear and non-linear dynamics

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Nga; Nguyen Ngoc Thach - In: Cogent economics & finance 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-14

Previous research on the globalization-welfare state nexus has typically been conducted within a linear monotonic … framework, focusing on two primary hypotheses. The efficiency hypothesis predicts that globalization shrinks the welfare state … an expanded welfare state. Empirical evidence on this relationship is mixed, with multicollinearity suggested as one …

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An extended view on inequality and redistribution in the European Union : the role of indirect taxation and in-kind benefits

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2024

This paper refines the concept of disposable income by incorporating governmentprovided in-kind benefits for education and health services, as well as imputed VAT payments, following Figari and Paulus (2015). Our analysis reveals that including these elements significantly reduces income...

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World economy autumn 2024: Momentum remains weak

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Kooths, Stefan; Reents, Jan; … - 2024

The global economy continues to expand at a moderate pace. The somewhat faster pace in the spring appears to have slowed again in the summer. In the United States, the economy is gradually losing momentum. At the same time, economic momentum in Europe remains low and a sustained economic...

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Can we all be Denmark? : the role of civic attitudes in welfare state reforms

Celico, Andrea; Rode, Martin - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 51 (2024) 1, pp. 87-125

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