The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State

By N. Barr. 2001

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The Self-Transformation of the European Social Model(s)* (2002, background): “In the face of market failures the welfare state is able to insure social risks that private insurance cannot adequately cover (Barr, 2001).”
Labour market- versus life course-related social policies: understanding cross-programme differences (2012, background): “The fact that the chance of experiencing them by and large is uncorrelated with the income distribution sets them apart from labour market-related risks like unemployment, which is heavily skewed towards low-income individuals (Barr 2001; Cusack et al. 2006; Esping-Andersen 1999).”
HOW SHOULD WE MEASURE THE “ECONOMIC” ASPECTS OF WELL‐BEING? (2005, background): “Barr , 2001 ) that the basic objective of the welfare state has been to reduce economic insecurity and economic inequality .”
Gender and welfare state change1 (2002, background): “Barr (2001) has suggested that in recognition of the gendered division of unpaid work, half the woman’s pension contributions should enter the man’s pension pot and vice versa.”
UNEMPLOYED BUT OPTIMISTIC: OPTIMAL INSURANCE DESIGN WITH BIASED BELIEFS (2015, background): “The existence of private information and aggregate risk and the government s advantage in coping with moral hazard have been suggested as explanations for the absence of private unemployment insurance (Chiu and Karni 1998, Barr 2001).”
Globalization, Democracy, and Effective Welfare Spending in the Developing World (2005, methodology): “Recent theoretical work on social insurance suggests how such spending may be efficient given pervasive failures in insurance markets (Barr, 2001; Mares, 2003).”
An Unnecessary KIS? The UK’s Key Information Set, was it Really needed and What was its Real Purpose? (2020, background): “Over a decade before the publication of the White Paper Barr (2001) identified that university applicants already had a more than adequate amount of information in easyto-understand formats available to help them make their decision as to which higher education (HE) course and which higher…”