Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State

Yu-Fu Chen, Catia Montagna, Holger Görg, Dennis Görlich, Hassan Molana and Yama Temouri
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Abstract: This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision of social insurance and progressive systems of redistributive taxation are incompatible with economic globalisation. The paper look at an important aspect of globalisation, namely the activities of multinational companies, and investigate whether social expenditure, which arguably contributes to a stable and more attractive social and economic environment for the operations of businesses, hinders or attracts inward investors.

Keywords: welfare state; globalisation; economies of scale; social expenditure; social protection; social expenditure; compensation hypothesis; Germany; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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