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From welfare to farewell: The European social-ecological state beyond economic growth
Laurent, Éloi - 2021
This working paper is intended to shed light on a pressing issue: the apparent growth-dependency of European welfare states at a time of weak growth prospects and strong criticisms of growth. Indeed, while the notion of going beyond GDP growth is gaining momentum in the European Union, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565948
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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
Schettkat, Ronald - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 2, pp. 27-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696428
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Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Welfare State
Henrekson, Magnus; Roine, Jesper - 2005
Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320111
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Entrepreneurship: A weak link in the welfare state
Henrekson, Magnus - 2002
Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281249
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The Welfare State, Thresholds, and Economic Growth
Fic, Tatiana; Ghate, Chetan - 2004
Can a growing welfare state induce a regime switch in the growth rate of an economy? This paper constructs a dynamic political economy model of economic growth and the welfare state in which both variables are non-linearly related and jointly endogenous. Using a Markov switching framework over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260719
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299930
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600915
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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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Is a Flat Tax politically feasible in a grown-up Welfare State?
Schaefer, Thilo; Peichl, Andreas; Fuest, Clemens - 2007
unique database of German micro data to provide empirical evidence for the analysis of the equity and efficiency effects as … base parameters are crucial for the effects of flat tax reforms in terms of equity and efficiency. A flat rate tax with a … effects, however, are quite small. Although we have derived our results for the case of Germany, we do think that similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297020
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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007
reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic … allowance. But in this case the efficiency gains vanish. We conclude that, due to their limited efficiency effects and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268499