Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

Revue économique, 2008, vol. 59, issue 3, 413-436

Abstract: We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the ?three worlds of welfare?, Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home production in services with close substitutes at home. Scandinavian policies give incentives to move home production in social services to the market but discourage other service activity. We find support for our claims in sectoral employment data for five representative countries, United States, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden.

Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RECO_593_0413 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-economique-2008-3-page-413.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
Working Paper: Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State (2008)
Working Paper: Employment outcomes in the welfare state (2008)
Working Paper: Employment outcomes in the welfare state (2008)
Working Paper: Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:recosp:reco_593_0413

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue économique from Presses de Sciences-Po
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().