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Ageing and Welfare-State Policy : Macroeconomic Perspective
Razin, Asaf; Schwemmer, Alexander H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
It has been well recognized that population ageing could generate structural changes centered around the dwindling labor force, on one hand, and the expanding dependency on the generosity of the welfare state, on the other hand. Ageing-related welfare state policy entails both fiscal issues and...
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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole - 2019
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 The policy was later repealed...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 - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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. - 2003
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 - 2014
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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Intra-household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 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...
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Welfare State, Inequality, and Globalization : Role of International-capital-flow Direction
Razin, Assaf - 2019
Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends …-exporting case, financial globalization drives up return to savings and drives down wages. In the capital-importing case, financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479722
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Welfare State vs. Market Forces in a Globalization Era
Razin, Assaf - 2019
Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore …, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its … the interactions between taxation, provision of social benefits, and globalization. We demonstrate how these interactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480145
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
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