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Social union, convergence and migration
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003
The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe. There is no need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of economic convergence. National welfare states will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507973
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EU enlargement and the future of the welfare state
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
by wage differences and meets with a flexible labour market. Migration does not make economic sense, however, if, and to … traditional social welfare state. If the EU plan incorporated a limitation of the free movement of labour, the beneficial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781584
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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781677
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EU enlargement, migration and the new constitution
Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2004
, it does so only if it meets with flexible labour markets and if it is not artificially induced by gifts from the welfare … state. This is not the present state of affairs in Western Europe. In addition to measures that make labour markets more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002523041
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Fiscal and migration competition
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 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/10003974528
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The retirement of the migrant labor force : pension portability and beyond
Jousten, Alain - 2012
The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly, many studies of migration's impact on pensions often focus on aggregate outcomes - system sustainability or distributive characteristics. The present paper provides a fresh look...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682342
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Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU : policy issues and analytical approaches
Wildasin, David E. - 2000
Increased integration of labour and capital markets creates significant challenges for the welfare states of modern … Europe. Taxation of capital and labour that finances extensive programs of cash and in-kind redistribution creates incentives … size and scope of redistributive policies. Mobility of labour and capital is imperfect, however. Recent trends indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781625
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European identity and redistributive preferences
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2015
How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the rescaling of spatial identity in Europe. We draw upon data from the last three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286518
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The free movement of inactive citizens in the EU : a challenge for the european welfare state?
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496489
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Money can't buy EU love : European funds and the Brexit referendum
Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Tunali, Çiğdem Börke - 2016
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We find that past European transfers have played virtually no role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544086