Cargando…
The economic consequences of rolling back the welfare state /
The welfare state has come under attack from economists in recent years, with calls for spending to be rolled back. Atkinson places these criticisms under empirical and analytical scrutiny, and warns of unintended negative side effects.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1999.
|
| Colección: | Munich lectures in economics.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Welfare State under Attack
- Economists and the Welfare State
- Working with, Rather than against, the Grain
- Importance of Institutional Features
- Political Economy
- Structure of the Book
- Limitations
- Welfare State and Economic Performance: Aggregate Empirical Evidence
- Different Hypotheses
- Econometric Studies of Aggregate Growth Rates
- Assessing the Findings about Growth Rates
- Econometric Studies of Unemployment
- Assessing the Findings about Unemployment
- Equilibrium Models of the Labor Market
- A Simple Competitive Equilibrium Model
- Issues Raised
- Models of Unemployment
- Trade Unions and Unemployment
- Unemployment Benefit
- In Lieu of a Conclusion
- Unemployment Insurance in a Segmented Labor Market
- Real-World Unemployment Insurance
- A Segmented Labor Market
- Impact of Cuts in Unemployment Benefit
- Public Choice and Unemployment Insurance
- Changes in Unemployment Insurance
- Voters' Support for Unemployment Benefit
- Alternatives to Voting Explanations
- Savings, Pensions, and Economic Growth
- Savings and Growth
- State Pensions and Growth
- Replacing State Pensions by a Means-Tested Safety Net
- Investment, Pension Funds, and the Capital Market
- Treatment of Investment in Growth Models
- A Corporate Growth Model
- Capital Markets and Private Pensions.