Many observers argue that recent votes unfavorable to the European Union are the result of specific factors in each country. The authors argue there is a more central problem. The European social model has been seriously undermined, partly because of budgetary agreements of the EU and a zealous...

Throughout the 1980s, the British unemployment compensation system was subject to a series of administrative changes. At the same time, the proportion of male unemployed workers receiving benefit fell by some twenty percentage points. Using a time series of cross-sections from the Labour Force...

This paper analyses the evolution of the welfare states in the majority of OECD countries during the pre-globalisation (1946--80) and globalisation (1980--2000) periods. Our purpose is to find out whether globalisation has produced a convergence towards a smaller welfare state, funded...