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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries

Marx, Ive - 2014

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...

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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...

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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely … dilemma facing Europe involves i. co-ordinating safety nets across the EU, ii. adopting explicitly selective migration …

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Demand Stimulus as Social Policy

Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Murphy, Daniel - 2022

We exploit a panel of city-level data with rich demographic information to estimate the distributional effects of Department of Defense spending and its effects on a range of social outcomes. The income generated by defense spending accrues predominantly to households without a bachelor's...

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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton - 2010

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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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

In European Welfare States, unskilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic...

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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; Wintermann, Ole - 2021

Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional pre-conditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...

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Pensions and household savings : cross-country heterogeneity in Europe

D'Addio, Anna Cristina; Roger, Muriel; Savignac, … - 2020

We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD). First, we find significant displacement...

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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements Across Socio-Economic Groups

Basso, Gaetano - 2011

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...

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