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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479516
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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479144
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Immigration and Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto - 2018
We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives' perceptions of immigrants influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large biases in natives' perceptions of the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452987
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"Unfunded Liabilities" and Uncertain Fiscal Financing
Davig, Troy - 2010
We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462870
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Social security pension reform in Europe
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor);  … - 2002
economic point of view / Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise -- Labor mobility, redistribution, and pension reform in Europe / Alain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001629344
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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … our main findings, we find that less than half of the retired elderly in Europe are decumulating their wealth and that the … average wealth accumulation rate of the retired elderly in Europe is positive though relatively moderate (6.6% over a 3-year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388826
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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics
Benabou, Roland - 2005
International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467477
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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470194
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477666
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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks
Pakes, Ariel - 1984
In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477754