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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay
Lindbeck, Assar - 2001
Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334952
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Improving the Performance of the European Social Model - The Welfare State over the Life Cycle
Lindbeck, Assar - 2003
The achievements of social-welfare arrangements in Western Europe are well known: considerable income security, relatively little poverty and, in some countries, ample supply of social services. But there are also well-known weaknesses and hence considerable scope for improvement. Three types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320124
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Is Korea moving toward the welfare state? : an IECI approach
Yoo, Ilho (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, it is attempted to see whether the recent increase in the actual social expenditure can be the one caused by the change in the policy stance of Korean government. IECI is calculated to check this. The initial finding is that the IECI of the welfare expenditure shows the clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003643134
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Chapter 23 Strong reciprocity and the welfare state
Fong, Christina M.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1439-1464). 2006
We explore the contribution of reciprocity and other non selfish motives to the political viability of the modern welfare state. In the advanced economies, a substantial fraction of total income is regularly transferred from the better off to the less well off, with the approval of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023655
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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Boerner, Kira; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005
redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439388
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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005
redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365909
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299971
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Revitalizing the Japanese economy by socializing risk
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Kanda, Reiko - 2010
The almost continuous stagnation of the Japanese economy for the past two decades has had an adverse impact on Japanese households from at least three perspectives: A decline in the standard of living, an increase in risks and uncertainties relating to livelihood, employment, old age, etc., and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332497
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
improves the workers' outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270554
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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900890