Welfare State (EWS) model is not yet in evidence. By applying a §-Convergence panel data approach on real per-capita welfare … expenditure, the paper analyses how the different types of welfare states and country-specific factors are conditioning the … countries are converging does not exist. Instead, we find evidence of strong heterogeneity among welfare states. While …

institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity prices. This paper investigates the effects of political establishments …, improving the quality of democratic institutions will ameliorate consumer welfare through lower inflation rates. Such government …

effects on economic inequality and welfare. For that purpose we built a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model capable … wealth. The results show a quite impressive positive welfare gain despite significant transition costs. The simulations point … economy evolves to its final steady state equilibrium. Overall, the welfare gains are slightly biased towards wealthier …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social …

are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives and are more likely to stay on welfare and to receive … a similar degree of ?structural? state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among refugee … immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ?welfare trap?, while participation among natives and non-refugee immigrants is …

marketplaces, the welfare gains and their distribution from the participation. Our analysis was based on the data of 373 female … transaction, trading, and business. We accounted for the endogeneity issue of online market participation in welfare impact … find that the poor benefit insignificantly from online marketplaces. This raises a concern of increasing welfare inequality …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …

, that tries to maximize social welfare. This project has been developed in Galicia (Spain), through monitoring some disabled …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …