Globalization and the Future of Social Protection

By V. Tanzi. Social Science Research Network, 2000

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Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments’ ability to continue providing this social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax revenue in future years. The paper concludes that the welfare states need to look for alternative ways to provide social protection.

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The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, background): “The end process would be a world where industrial countries will have to do less public spending, will reduce the use of tax expenditures for achieving particular social objectives, and will also have to reduce the role of specific socially-directed regulations " (Tanzi 2002: 127).”
Globalisation and the Composition of Government Spending: An analysis for OECD countries (2006, background): “There is a small literature that considers the tax effects of globalisation. See for example, Devereux and Griffith (1998), Figlio and Blonigen (2000) and Oates (1995).”
Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar? (2008, background): “Against the backdrop of economic globalization and the European common market, governments are caught in a downward spiral (‘race to the bottom’), reducing tax burdens and levels of regulation to attract mobile capital or to counter supposed threats of capital exit (Sinn 2002; Tanzi 2002).”
Gender and welfare state change1 (2002, background): “…and in particular by the prediction that cuts in social programmes would surely follow the drive to increase competitiveness in the context of the diminishing control that national governments can exercise over exchange rates, devaluation and corporation tax (Scharpf 2000; Tanzi 2000).”
Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class? (2000, unknown): “38 Tanzi (2000).”
Non-contributory pensions and social protection (2002, background): “protection, while at the same time restricting the capacity of governments to respond (Rodrick 1997; Alesina 1999; Tanzi 2000 ).”