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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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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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Indian Media, the WTO and the Neoliberal Agenda
Arora, Madhu - 2009
-a-vis such discourses of globalization, capitalism and media monopoly …The media are an integral aspect of the society and their influence on our lives cannot be denied. Gradually, as the … international media have become highly concentrated and integrated, this hold has increased manifold. The media have a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065648
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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. - 1999
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner welfare state to reap the benefits of integraiton or is it necessary to expand the welfare state to offset some negative consequences of international integration? This paper addresses these issues in a fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537320
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International integration, risk and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M. - 2002
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406889
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Explaining Welfare State Survival : The Role of Economic Freedom and Globalization
Bergh, Andreas - 2006
Using the economic freedom index and the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, it is shown that the Scandinavian …-European and the Anglo-Saxon welfare states. The market economy and globalization hence do not pose threats to these welfare states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733794
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International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State
Andersen, Torben M. - 2021
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320591