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Does fleet street shape politics? : Estimating the effect of newspaper coverage about globalization on the support for unemployment insurance
Protte, Benjamin - 2012
In this paper, I quantify the role of media in the formation of support for unemployment insurance. Theory suggests … that individuals who feel threatened by globalization demand compensatory policies. Using a novel method of quantitative … text analysis, I derive measures on the stance to globalization for all major British newspapers between 2001 and 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490098
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Gobalisation and the future of the welfare state
Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - 2014
The conventional wisdom is that increasing globalisation requires a reduction in the provision of the welfare state among industrialised countries as the distortions resulting from this type of expenditure undermine international competitiveness and the ability of countries to attract and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430559
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Globalisation, European Integration and Social Protection – Patterns of Change or Continuity?
van Vliet, Olaf - 2009
The adoption of a new instrument of governance in the EU - the open-method-of-coordination - has renewed the notion of convergence/divergence across EU member states. This paper examines the role of European integration in shaping and changing social welfare systems and investigates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157995
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Global taxation and national welfare states
Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023
This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … size and factor abundance. It then draws on existing empirical evidence to outline the effects of globalization on capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306784
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Economic Crises and Globalisation as Drivers of Pension Privatisation : An Empirical Analysis
Leibrecht, Markus - 2017
Pension systems are core institutional arrangements that are expected to be stable and reliable over consecutive generations. Nevertheless, reforms in pension provision intensified over the past decades, with several countries opting for privatisation of their pension system. We ask which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951224
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Globalisation and social spending
De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003
We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506440
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International integration, risk and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001450634
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International integration, risk and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001667592
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International Integration and the Welfare State
Andersen, Torben M. - 2002
This paper discusses how international integration affects the need and scope for welfare state activities. The first part reviews the main mechanisms, which have been considered in the literature, namely, tax base mobility, risk and race to the bottom effects in welfare policies. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120715
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Global Taxation and National Welfare States
Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023
This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … size and factor abundance. It then draws on existing empirical evidence to outline the effects of globalization on capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347020