Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

Arbeitspapier

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We also discuss welfare-state dynamics when there is a time lag in the adjustment of the norm in response to changes in this population share, and show how a temporary shift in the unemployment rate may cause persistence in the number of beneficiaries.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 585

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Welfare State ; Social Norms ; Social Insurance ; Arbeitsethik ; Sozialstaat ; Sozialversicherung ; Trittbrettfahrerverhalten ; Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; Soziale Norm

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lindbeck, Assar ; Nyberg, Sten ; Weibull, Jörgen W.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81253
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ