Equity, Efficiency and Growth
The Future of the Welfare State
Editors: Baldassarri, Mario, Paganetto, Luigi, Phelps, Edmund S. (Eds.)
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In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries. The considerable size of this spending as a percentage of GDP together with the ageing population raise doubts on the sustainability of welfare spending. These doubts have been accompanied in recent years by an increasing awareness of the allocational inefficiencies and the distributive inequalities caused by the provision of some social services. The welfare state should therefore be reconstructed not only through readjustment of the social security system but also a change in unemployment benefits and the taxation of workers to avoid the perverse spiral that may be produced in the future by cuts in welfare benefits, growing unemployment and the need to further reduce the social security services.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Pages 13-40
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On the Damaging Side Effects of the Welfare System: How, Why and What to Do
Pages 41-56
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Subsidising Employment Rather than Unemployment
Pages 59-71
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The Labour Market, the Welfare State and European Convergence
Pages 73-101
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Economic Effects of Work Sharing in a Dynamic Labour Turnover Model
Pages 103-123
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Equity, Efficiency and Growth
- Book Subtitle
- The Future of the Welfare State
- Editors
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- Mario Baldassarri
- Luigi Paganetto
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Series Title
- Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Servizio Italiano Pubblicazioni Internazionali Srl
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights are restricted. Dual edition
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-24649-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-349-24649-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-16014-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-24651-9
- Series ISSN
- 2662-6217
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 426
- Topics
