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The Scandinavian Model – Prospects and Challenges
Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2007
employment ratio, namely, demographic changes, a growth dilemma and globalization. This paper discusses how these challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405706
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2007
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state’s minimum replacement incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181378
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Welfare Migration: Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Good Measure of its Economics Impact on the Welfare of the Native-Born Population?
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2004
Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio. But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it nevertheless burdens the welfare state. Recent studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405942
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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2008
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406111
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Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State
Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2009
unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country’s exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406191
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Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants across Countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - CESifo - 2006
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416495
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EU Enlargement, Migration, and Lessons from German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 1999
The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416502
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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - CESifo - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877734
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Work Norms and the Welfare State
Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2011
Many European countries still provide their citizens with social insurance programs of unprecedented generosity. A cultural critique of the welfare state contends that generous social insurance has detrimental effects on work norms. This paper revisits the model of endogenous work ethic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371344
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Leaky Bucket in the Real World: Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data
Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - CESifo - 2007
Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094321