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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...
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Leaders and Followers : Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014
innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047034
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Intra-Household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
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Religiosity and State Welfare
Dills, Angela K. - 2013
The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous decline in religiosity affected several measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079759
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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence from an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole; Jensen, Amalie Sofie; Kleven, Henrik - 2022
We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...
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Public Economics and Inequality : Uncovering Our Social Nature
Saez, Emmanuel - 2022
This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic model, is crucial to understand our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the...
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Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch
Lindert, Peter H. - 2021
The econometric consensus on the effects of social spending confirms a puzzle we confront in the raw data: There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large. The paper offers five keys to this free lunch puzzle....
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The Welfare State and Migration : A Dynamic Analysis of Political Coalitions
Razin, Assaf - 2015
We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct voting groups: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The essence of inter- and intra-generational redistribution of a typical welfare system is captured with a...
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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries : 1900-2003
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the … early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive … gross social expenditures. After adjustments for direct and indirect taxes paid, the net social expenditures in the Nordic …
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...
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