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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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Mimicking the opposition : Bismarck's welfare state and the rise of the socialists
Kersting, Felix - 2023
This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...
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Three worlds of welfare capitalism of four?
Castles, Francis G.; Mitchell, Deborah - 1990
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The internationalisation of public welfare policy
Banks, James; Disney, Richard; Duncan, Alan S.; Van … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
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Current account deficits during heightened risk : menacing or mitigating?
Forbes, Kristin; Hjortsoe, Ida; Nenova, Tsvetelina - 2016
's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It … and explore how they are affected by domestic and global risk. We apply this framework to ten OECD economies, showing the … Kingdom, show that a substantial degree of international risk sharing can occur through current accounts and international …
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The backlash of globalization
Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Stanig, Piero - 2021
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Lawyers, governance, and globalization : the diverging paths of "public interest law" across the Americas
Silva, Fábio de Sá e - 2017
research, but already speak to a variety of theories about institutional development in times of globalization, such as …
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