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Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565215
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment … countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762118
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Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State
Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision of social insurance and progressive systems of redistributive taxation are incompatible with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884395
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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959712
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Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233856
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The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge
Barth, Erling; Moene, Karl Ove - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The complementarity between wage setting and welfare spending can explain how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens. More wage equality increases the welfare generosity via political competition in elections. A more generous welfare state fuels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545742
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
these barriers. Changes in the areas of salaried employment, education, social insurance, mobility and attitudes are seen as … active inclusion policies, especially in the areas of employment and education. These results appear to be robust with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416937
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Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and Labor Supply of Adult Children
Loken, Katrine Vellesen; Lundberg, Shelly; Riise, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we use a 1998 reform in the federal funding of local home-based care for the elderly in Norway to examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions and mobility of middle-aged children. Our main finding is a consistent and significant negative impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812510
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The Petersberg Declaration
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Konrad, Kai A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Against the background of the worldwide financial market and economic crisis, leading German economists urge policymakers to maintain the reform course in labor market policy. The experts warn not to jeopardize the clearly positive effects of the recent reform efforts. The "Petersberg...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632738
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Petersberger Erklaerung: Anstoesse fuer eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Hagen, Juergen von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
In this paper six authors propose guidelines for German labor market policy, to overcome current discouragement and lead to a new balance of social security and individual competetiveness. Crucial aspects in this regard should be a reformed tax system based on excise instead of income taxes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761759