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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries : 1900-2003
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive closer inspection when we consider the differences in the...
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Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch
Lindert, Peter H. - 2003
The econometric consensus on the effects of social spending confirms a puzzle we confront in the raw data: There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large. The paper offers five keys to this free lunch puzzle....
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The Expanding Social Safety Net
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011
Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies have increased sharply since 2007, and most of this growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession...
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Social Security and Retirement in Canada
Gruber, Jonathan - 1997
Government transfers to older persons in Canada are one of the largest and fastest growing" components of the …
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Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs
Baker, Michael - 2003
We explore the fiscal implications of reforms to the Canadian retirement income system by decomposing the fiscal effect of reforms into two components. The mechanical effect captures the change in the government's budget assuming no behavioral response to the reform. The second component is the...
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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income … of racial heterogeneity in the US and American political institutions. Racial animosity in the US makes redistribution to …
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Public Economics and Inequality : Uncovering Our Social Nature
Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic model, is crucial to understand our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the...
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Optimal Income Transfers
Kaplow, Louis - 2006
A substantial literature addresses the design of transfer programs and policies, including the negative income tax, other means-tested transfers, the earned income tax credit, categorical assistance, and work inducements. This work is largely independent of that on the optimal nonlinear income...
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - 2011
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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Pathways to Education : An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2014
Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student, daily tutoring, group activities, career counseling, and...
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