Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom: Theory and Evidence

By Jan K. Brueckner. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (2002, background): “75 underproduced in such a system relative to the social optimum (Brueckner, 2000; Wheaton, 2000).”
• Strategic Tax Competition in Switzerland: Evidence from a Panel of the Swiss Cantons (2009, positive): “It is thus no surprise that, in his survey on mimicking behavior of competing jurisdictions in the U.S. welfare system, BRUECKNER (2000) assesses these results as indicating the infamous race to the bottom phenomenon of fiscal competition.”
• On Spatial Public Finance Empirics (2005, background): “Moreover, a recent empirical literature has tested for international tax competition (Goodspeed, 2000, 2002; Altshuler and Goodspeed, 2002; Devereux, Lockwood and Redoano, 2002; Devereux, Griffith and Klemm, 2002; Redoano, 2003; Evers, de Mooij and Vollebergh, 2004), Tiebout-like competition for mob”
• For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, background): “Okun notes that in the United States, savings rates were 16 percent of GDP in both 1929, when taxes were low and flat and the social protection system was small, and in 1973, when taxes were higher and more progressive and the social protection system was much larger.”
• Does EU Enlargement Start a Race to the Bottom? Strategic Interaction among EU Member States in Social Policy (2004, methodology): “This is inspired by studies, mainly performed in economics and political science in the US, that point to a downward bias in benefit levels caused by each state not being as generous as it would have been without concerns over welfare migration (Brueckner, 2000; Schram et al., 1998).”
• Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity (2015, background): “2See Brueckner (2000) for a review of this literature.”
• Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in migration modelling (2003, background): “5 Brueckner (2000) concludes that empirical evidence supports the “race-to-the-bottom” hypothesis.”
• Performance Rating and Yardstick Competition in Social Service Provision (2006, neutral): “5Brueckner [16] reviews the empirical welfare competition literature.”
• The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, background): “Peter Gourevitch provided useful comments on an early draft.”