Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A … welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the … state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare …

country's productive capabilities is often attainable only at the expense of another country's general welfare. The authors …

In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the … effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain …

including empirical studies of the welfare effects of quality - upgrading voluntary export restrictions and import quotas …

, countries will have more resources to concentrate on structural concerns. Welfare and Employment in a United Europe takes a …

approach replaces ordinal measures of individual welfare that cannot be compared among individuals with cardinal measures that … can. These are combined into an indicator of social welfare that reflects principles of horizontal and vertical equity …

In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many OECD countries there have been … calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back. Critics argue that the size of transfer programs is responsible … to roll back the welfare state could have unintended negative side effects, based as they are on an oversimplified view …

: welfare and socialist economics. Part I, Social Welfare and the Economic Optimum, presents the author's seminal early article … on the concept of social welfare and two additional essays on the relation of social choice theory to welfare economics …'s surplus analysis, including the frequently cited paper on monopoly welfare losses. A final paper elaborates for factor …