In the article innovation-reproductive and rent-generating function of national welfare is exposed, necessity and real ways of national welfare innovative potential look-ahead analytical estimates methodology and tools’ revision in a context of globalization trends are offered, complex analysis of the results of system parametristic indication of the strategy of national welfare development in ...

The comparative study of social policy in developing countries is of recent vintage.1 Yet the middle-income countries of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe have welfare systems that originated in the early post­ war period. The questions posed by these systems are the same as those that motivate the literature on the advanced welfare state: Why did gov­ ernments undertake the provisio...

In Australian welfare reform debate, a range of approaches and policies have been advocated. Regardless of their diversity, I argue that the debate has an unnecessarily narrow framework resulting from the widespread acceptance of at least three welfare reform myths. First, is the idea that the current system is anachronistic and in disrepair. Instead of this narrow focus on welfare policy, I ar...

Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budget sets for each work-welfare combination – accounting for income...

The two books reviewed here are part of a torrent of recently published research into the nature, condition and reform of the welfare state. On Worlds of Welfare (here, SVdB) issues from an interdepartmental research institute run by the Dutch government. One of its goals is to locate and evaluate the Dutch welfare state in a cross-national perspective. Its wider remit is to validate the mainst...

Community has a problematic relationship to economics. In general, contemporary political economics holds that groups have strongly negative effects on economic efficiency and growth, because groups bind individuals into situations where they can no longer realize their preferences, exit freely, and find effective representation for their interests. Communities are, at best, necessary evils whe...

Based on the established association between child poverty and youth violence trends, this study employs both macroand micro-level research strategies to determine whether the recent changes in macroeconomic conditions and welfare reform policies that influenced child poverty trends throughout most of the 1990’s and the early 2000’s also influenced trends in youth violent victimization, and the...

Knowledge plays an increasingly important role in shaping the dynamics of an economy. A static Paretian welfare economics is therefore inadequate, and needs to be supplemented by a dynamic (Schumpeterian) welfare theory. A dynamic welfare economics acknowledges the role of knowledge and communication. As knowledge develops cumulatively in a social environment, knowledge may not be readily diffu...