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Aus einer Betrachtung des historischen Entwicklungsweges der Verschiebebahnhofpolitik zwischen der Rentenversicherung der Arbeiter und Angestellten, der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit und dem Bundeshaushalt für den Zeitraum von 1964 bis 2000 schlussfolgert der Beitrag, dass jegliche Strukturreform,...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert rentenpolitische Entscheidungsprozesse in Ländern, deren Alterssicherungssysteme weitgehend dem Bismarckmodell folgen (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Österreich, Schweden). Da sie typischerweise definierte Leistungen im Wege des Umlageverfahrens gewähren...
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European social policy has two central dimensions: the relation between liberalized market freedoms and social protection, on the one hand, and the distribution of regulatory competencies between the supranational and the national level on the other. The posted workers issue, i.e. the question...
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Seit Anfang der 1970er-Jahre lässt sich eine graduelle Verschärfung der fiskalischen Situation moderner Staaten beobachten. Chronisch gewordene Defizite und eine dramatisch gestiegene Staatsverschuldung sind zu einer beherrschenden Rahmenbedingung wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Politik geworden. Das...
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The role of macroeconomic policy in the different varieties of capitalism has been largely ignored. Recent contributions to the literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to have less accommodating (i.e., less countercyclical) macroeconomic policies than liberal...
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This article analyzes various pitfalls that arise in the application of panel data methods in comparative political economy. Empirically, we refer to the debate on the globalization-welfare state nexus by re-assessing a study by Garrett and Mitchell (‘Globalization, Government Spending and...
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Among policy-makers and academics there is a controversial discussion whether the tax mix influences labor market performance in advanced industrialized countries. Many economists argue that the total tax burden rather than the tax-mix matters for aggregate employment, whereas neither the burden...
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Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...
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This article challenges the methodological nationalism of the convergence debate by arguing that multilevel governance destabilizes the coalitions thought to underpin liberal and coordinated varieties of capitalism. Existing efforts to explain how coherent production regimes emerge and persist...
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