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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...

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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...

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Globalisation and social spending

De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003

We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...

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Student and worker mobility under university and government competition

Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2011

We provide a normative analysis of endogenous student and worker mobility in the presence of diverging interests between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a...

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When does inter-jurisdictional competition engender a "race to the bottom"? : a meta-regression analysis

Costa-Font, Joan; De-Albuquerque, Filipe; Doucouliagos, … - 2015

A growing literature documents the existence of strategic political reactions to public expenditure in one jurisdiction on either neighboring or reference jurisdictions. The latter might give raise to downward expenditure spiral, or "race to the bottom". However, in ascertaining the empirical...

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The new systems competition

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001

While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...

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The threat to the German welfare state

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

Germany is in a dilemma. Low wage competition via product and factor markets increases the demands on the welfare state, but increased systems competition in the context of international factor mobility reduces the possibilities of maintaining it. The welfare state has important allocative...

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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

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Globalization and values

Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

This paper discusses a central element in globalization debate little addressed by economists, namely the interactions … at global, national, and community levels between globalization and societally based values. Social values refer to wider … stress on analytical comparative statics. Scenarios for how values can interact under globalization are discussed in the text. …

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Higher education reform and the renewed Lisbon Strategy : role of member states and the European Commission

Ploeg, Frederick van der (contributor); … - 2007

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