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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a ‘race to the bottom'. This result may indeed hold in the case of factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142237
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121865
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The Free Movement of Inactive Citizens in the EU - A Challenge for the European Welfare State?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2007
The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777493
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Labor Policies and Capital Mobility in Theory and in EMU
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2014
“Race-to-the-bottom” deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048889
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Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy : Role of Member States and the European Commission
van der Ploeg, Rick; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2021
This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, private returns to education and the funding problems of European universities. Our proposals for reform are based on more autonomy for universities, higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317226
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2021
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315641
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The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges
Andersen, Torben M. - 2007
employment ratio, namely, demographic changes, a growth dilemma and globalization. This paper discusses how these challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777727
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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021
The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to lowwage economies. This trend challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance markets are missing. The main results are: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316451
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317221
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Globalization, Jobs, and Welfare : The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution
Ranjan, Priya - 2015
This paper studies the welfare and policy implications of globalization when risk averse workers face the risk of … unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028782