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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...

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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.

Addison, John T.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2002

Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation –...

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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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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...

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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

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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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state: the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: a combination of equal opportunity and capitalistic dynasties

Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0.1 percent of the population. Overall, mobility is lower for...

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

. There is no trade-off between equity and efficiency at early ages of human development but there is a substantial trade …

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Efficient and inefficient welfare states

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the … issue and factor analytical calculations is presented, which supports our general argument about the efficiency of the … policies rather than social policies. The empirical evidence, suggests that in terms of the efficiency of the European social …

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