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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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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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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
public in Europe has rather negative attitudes towards immigrants. Although the business community views immigrants somewhat …
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Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2006
The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a significant but small effect of the generosity of...
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