Welfare Deservingness for Migrants: Does the Welfare State Model Matter?

Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State

Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept...

Does the Welfare State Help the Poor?

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Does the Welfare State Induce Risk Taking?

In cross-national data on individual and country-level characteristics, the variance of log annual income is shown to correlate positively with indicators of redistribution. The database comes from the Panel Comparability (PACO) project, affiliated with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), a first effort to provide comparable panel data across a broad range of countries. Countries in the sample i...

Does Libertarianism Imply the Welfare State?

Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency ?

This paper investigates neighborhood peer eff ects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with aggregated zip code level-information. The results suggest that individual welfare use is positively co...