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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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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard - 2007

The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … popular views about the globalization effects in the U.S. and continental Europe. The results also suggest that the welfare …

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Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding - or Somebody Else?

Traub, Stefan; Seidl, Christian; Schmidt, Ulrich; … - 2003

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design : The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self-concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of...

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It's the End of Globalization as We Know It! Zeitgemäße Betrachtungen zur politischen Ökonomik der Globalisierungskrise

Reiner, Christian - 2022

Hyperglobalisierung für den globalen Süden als wesentliche Erklärungsfaktoren für die Globalisierungskrise. Ob zukünftig eine De- oder Re-Globalisierung …

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Has globalisation increased inequality?

Dreher, Axel; Gaston, Noel - 2006

There has been no shortage of theories which purport to explain why globalisation may have, adverse, insignificant or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the empirical realities remain an almost complete mystery. In this paper we use data on industrial wage...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay

Lindbeck, Assar - 2001

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

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Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen - 1996

This paper analyzes the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in a public finance context. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is felt by the individual. It is shown...

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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers

Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens? taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is...

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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire

Jacobs, Bas - 2008

This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...

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