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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005

structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

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Social harmony at the boundaries of the welfare state : immigrants and social transfers

Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is...

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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's … that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially higher …

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Unintended consequences of welfare cuts on children and adolescents

Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2024

This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average over the first five years. We show that...

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The interaction of labor market regulation and labor market policies in welfare state reform

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2005

, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany). The paper shows whether and to what extent …

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Whatever happened to the Bismarckian welfare state? : from labor shedding to employment-friendly reforms

Hemerijck, Anton; Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the...

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Welfare and employment : a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Are there austerity‐related policy changes in Germany?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hassel, Anke - 2015

This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008‐9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare state reforms in the early 2000s aimed at 'welfare readjustment', we do not see austerity...

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Welfare: savings not taxation

Douglas, Roger; MacCulloch, Robert - 2017

Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality of outcomes improved. As a potential way to achieve these aims, there has been a surge of interest in the Singaporean model which features compulsory savings accounts and...

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Assessing welfare accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction …

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