Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 834
Cover Image
Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265550
Cover Image
Globalisierung und Soziale Marktwirtschaft: Eine wirtschaftsethische Perspektive
Pies, Ingo - 2007
Dieser Artikel beleuchtet aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive, wie Globalisierung im öffentlichen Diskurs wahrgenommen wird und wie sie stattdessen wahrgenommen werden müsste, um die mit Globalisierung verbundenen Chancen und Risiken richtig einschätzen zu können. Die Hauptaussagen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733754
Cover Image
Prospects for the Welfare State
Lindbeck, Assar - 2008
It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320128
Cover Image
The subsidiarity principle and the negative spread: A case in point for the governance of state-owned banks
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2005
-owned bank. Firstly, it stresses that the principle of subsidiarity is at the root of decision-making processes in which the bank … subsidiarity, putting forward the notion of the subsidiarity portfolio to redress misuses and enhance the governance of these … portfolios'returns, inclusive of the costs-benefit structure, it introduces the rate of subsidiarity. Afterwards it moves on to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323255
Cover Image
Föderalismus in der (Corona-)Krise
Stehn, Jürgen - 2021
Der Autor stellt vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen Theorie des Föderalismus die Frage, ob dezentrale Kompetenzen beim Infektionsschutz auf Länderebene weniger effizient sind als zentrale Kompetenzen auf der Bundesebene. Er stellt fest, dass die Präferenzen zwischen den Bundesländern mit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692771
Cover Image
Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028659
Cover Image
Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2000
This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262381
Cover Image
Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262555
Cover Image
Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis
Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2005
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267556
Cover Image
Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269552