Countries and welfare states
Workers, worries and welfare states: Social protection and job insecurity in 15 OECD countries
... of welfare states on job ...why welfare states have con- tinued to grow, or why cutbacks have been relatively limited, despite tax fatigue and the economic pressures associated with ...OECD ...
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Are health inequalities really not the smallest in the Nordic welfare states? : A comparison of mortality inequality in 37 countries
... Nordic welfare state regime but with signi fi cant within welfare state ...‘ welfare state regimes ’ , a concept which assumes a homogenous approach to welfare provision within and between the ...
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Are health inequalities really not the smallest in the Nordic welfare states? A comparison of mortality inequality in 37 countries.
... Nordic welfare state regime but with signi ficant within welfare state ...to welfare provision within and between the countries of any par- ticular regime ...cohesion, welfare ...
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Welfare States, Social Structure and the Dynamics of Poverty Rates. A comparative study of 16 countries, 1980-2000.
... basic/targeted welfare states is attributable to differences in the unemployment benefit ...encompassing welfare states is to a large degree dependent if not on unemployment insurance at least ...
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Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries
... only countries with data from 2005 to 2014 were included, leaving Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Switzerland, Serbia and Turkey out of the ...European countries, we grouped them into six ...
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"The Welfare States in a United Europe"
... Table 1 shows the panel estimates in the two sub-periods and the initial level of welfare expenditure with no group effects and no interaction between countries. In contrast with the static Lorenz's curve ...
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Gender and European Welfare States
... And beliefs – especially among younger people – about gender equality in work and care, are often not consonant with their governments’ policies. Are there alternative scenarios for a more gender equal future in Europe? ...
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
... the welfare state. It is possible to get a large, but ine¢ cient, welfare state in a society populated by numerous uncivic individuals who cheat on social bene…ts, escape from taxes and do not behave ...
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European welfare states in competition
... a Forecasts rounded to the nearest 0.5 percentage point. b West-Germany. In table 2 to be found in the appendix we have presented macro-unemployment figures to get a rough idea of the direction of future migration flows. ...
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Welfare States and Health Inequalities
... of welfare states is often too crude to be used for more detailed studies of how different features of social protection policies can affect health and inequalities in ...of countries because they ...
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Are European welfare states sustainable?
... member states that are not economically active are not free to settle in a member ...wage countries to less expensive low benefit/low wage countries is more ...United States, the vast majority ...
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Migrants and health in the Nordic welfare states
... non-Western countries are on average using hospitals more than persons of Danish ...non-Western countries who come to Denmark have a number of health problems (for example, as a result of persecution in ...
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Southern Welfare States: Configuration of the Welfare Balance between State and the Family
... these countries? I argue that the 2008 financial crisis spurs the revisiting of that discussion, not the scrapping of ...different welfare systems. Southern European welfare states are under ...
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Welfare state regimes and population health : integrating the East Asian welfare states.
... in welfare policies that were likely to have occurred in these welfare states on health outcomes were not ...expanded welfare regime typology is also a ...other welfare regime ...
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EU enlargement and the race to the bottom of welfare states
... D j,t-1 is a vector that consists of the destination country-specific factors influencing the migration and remigration decision. It contains the annual nominal net wage in 10,000 Euro, the unemployment rate in % and the ...
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Transforming the developmental welfare states in East Asia
... wages and weak trade unions. However, once trade unions were allowed to mobilize workers and successfully increase the level of wages from the late 1980s, the existing formula of company welfare benefi ts could not ...
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Labour Market Mobility in Nordic Welfare States
... There are differences from country to country in how common part- time work is and how well part-time employees are integrated into work- ing life, for example measured by the risk of exiting the labour market and the ...
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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries: 1900-2003
... the countries. The Nordic countries are more focused on providing the same basic benefit to everybody, while the ...Nordic countries provide a basic national health care system run by some ...
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Migration: a theoretical comparison on countries' welfare
... among states or local jurisdictions su¤ers from externalities because the tax base is ...all countries (OECD, 2013), with the exception of Switzerland or Luxembourg, who importantly depend on cross-border ...
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The welfare cost of the EMU for transition countries
... relatively similar. When a country faces sectoral productivity shocks, an Autonomous Monetary Policy is better to stabilize it, especially when it carries Balassa-Samuelson effects on relative prices and real exchange ...
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