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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 …
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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/10010833230
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...
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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 …
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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...
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-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 …
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Media is the strongest communication channel and one of key players in making the world as a global village. This … industry is more apparent to the world’s audience. Pakistan’s media has moved quite fast and is trying to beat the … international hues of media. Our media is trying to highlight the problems but solutions are quite suppressed and left out in the …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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