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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2004
Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449990
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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2004
Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002177091
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The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy, Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319137
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Consumption Externalities and Growth : Theory and Evidence for the United States
Petach, Luke - 2018
inefficiently low savings and growth because of external habits. In semi-endogenous models, consumption externalities have no growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932544
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Relative consumption, relative wealth, and long-run growth : when and why is the standard analysis prone to erroneous conclusions?
Hof, Franz X.; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We employ a novel approach for analyzing the effects of relative consumption and relative wealth preferences on both the decentralized and the socially optimal economic growth rates. In the pertinent literature these effects are usually assessed by examining the dependence of the growth rates on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151987
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The curse of natural resources : a developmental analysis in a comparative context
Acar, Sevil - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517369
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The Curse of Natural Resources : A Developmental Analysis in a Comparative Context
Acar, Sevil - 2017
negative implications for genuine savings. Next, the book compares the development path of Norway before and after discovering … oil, contrasting it with Sweden's development. The two countries, which followed almost identical paths until the 1970s … Resources and Sustainability -- 5 Two-Country Comparison: Norway versus Sweden.-6 Conclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397514
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Reform of the welfare state and economic performance
Atkinson, Anthony B. - In: Die Zukunft des Sozialstaats : Jahrestagung des Vereins …, (pp. 53-72). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001456103
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Precautionary saving, growth, and welfare : a cross-country study
Jitsuchon, Somchai; Saitō, Makoto - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000908066
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Pensions, economic growth and welfare in advanced economies
Devesa, Enrique; Doménech, Rafael - In: Economic challenges of pension systems : a …, (pp. 81-103). 2020
alternative systems focuses on their effects on savings, capital accumulation, labour supply, economic growth and inequality and … on the savings rate, capital accumulation, productivity and the labour supply. These effects must be taken into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207196