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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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Public and private welfare state institutions : a formal theory of American exceptionalism
Thomsson, Kaj - 2010
I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932522
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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229882
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2021
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315641
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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions : A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism
Thomsson, Kaj - 2010
I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191309
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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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The welfare state, an impediment to integration?
Walz, Uwe; Wellisch, Dietmar - 1997
We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of government activity, matters change drastically....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407093
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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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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