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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2007
the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181378
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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2008
unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406111
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Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State
Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2009
unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country’s exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406191
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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - CESifo - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
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Rolling Back the Public Sector - Differential Effects on Employment, Investment and Growth
Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2003
The macroeconomic effects on growth, investment and private sector employment of different ways of rolling back the welfare state are analysed. Cutting public spending on private goods induces a lower interest rate, a higher wage, a lower capital stock and a fall in employment. Cutting public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765987
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Increases in Risk and the Welfare State
Eichner, Thomas; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2002
According to many observers, the world is currently getting riskier along many of its dimensions. In this paper we analyse how the welfare state, i.e., social insurance that works through redistributive taxation, should deal with this trend. We distinguish between risks that can be insured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766063
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Migration, Tied Foreign Aid and the Welfare State
Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Michael S. - CESifo - 2005
In this paper we highlight aspects related to the links between international migration, foreign tied aid and the welfare state. We model migration as a costly movement from an aid-recipient developing country with low income, poor infrastructure, and no welfare system, towards a rich donor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766088
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008
In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766144
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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010
The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511616
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Ageing and the Welfare State: Securing Sustainability
Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2010
Over the next four decades, increasing old-age dependency ratios exert an enormous upward pressure on welfare spending in most developed countries. As this is mainly due to existing unfunded public pension schemes, many countries have embarked on far-reaching reforms in this area, strengthening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534027