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Public self-insurance and the Samaritan's dilemma in a federation

Lohse, Tim; Robledo, Julio R. - 2012

Motivated by recent disasters, this paper analyzes the risk sharing aspect in a federation. The regions can be hit by a shock leading to losses that occur with an exogenous probability and in a stochastically independent way. The regions can spend effort on selfinsurance to reduce the size of...

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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance

Gangl, Markus - 2002

Die Suchtheorie macht zwei komplementäre Vorhersagen über den Einfluß der Arbeitslosenversicherung auf die Dynamik von … Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer … Vergleich sind allenfalls die negativen Dauereffekte der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den USA etwas stärker, während in der …

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Federal tax autonomy and the limits of cooperation

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Konrad, Kai A.; Kotsogiannis, … - 2005

We consider the hold-up problem between a foreign direct investor and the government(s) in a host country with weak governmental structure and lack of power to commit. Using Nash threats, we show that an efficient investment level can be sustained for a sufficiently high discount factor and ask...

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Citizen support for the Welfare State: Determinants of preferences for income redistribution

Rehm, Philipp - 2005

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they...

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Risks at work: the demand and supply sides of government redistribution

Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Rehm, Philipp - 2005

To understand how the welfare state adjusts to economic shocks it is important to explain both the genesis of popular preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using a general theoretical framework and detailed...

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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012

In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...

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Party cues and yardstick voting

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2008

Politicians within any given party generally exhibit a degree similarity in terms of (political) viewpoints. Moreover, they are often constrained to follow general party lines on certain policy issues. Finally, they may be more likely to mimic one another than politicians from another party....

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Moral cost, commitment, and committee size

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...

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Eine Europäische Arbeitslebensversicherung? Auf den Spuren des Revolutionärs Immanuel Kant

Schmid, Günther - 2021

Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf europäischer Ebene hat durch die Krisen der letzten Jahre wiederholt neue Impulse erhalten. Mit den Initiativen für eine europäische Arbeitslosenrückversicherung, einen europäischen Mindestlohn, eine europäische Jugendgarantie und - vor kurzem - Europäische...

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Is unemployment insurable? Employers and the institutionalization of the risk of unemployment

Mares, Isabela - 1996

Arbeitslosenfürsorge zur Arbeitslosenversicherung analysiert, um die Diskussion zur Rolle der organisierten Arbeit-geber bei derEntwicklung … der modernen Sozialpolitik neuerlich zu beleuchten. Das Ergebnis der Analyse widerspricht der "power-resource"- Theorie … Arbeitslosenfürsorge und ihreBevorzugung eines Systems der Arbeits-losenversicherung der letztlichentscheidende politische Faktor war, der …

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