Would you like to shrink the welfare state? A survey of European citizens

By T. Boeri, Axel Börsch-Supan, Guido Tabellini. 2001

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, background): “Consequently, most retrenchment initiatives are not only deeply unpopular among electorates (Boeri et al. 2001; Taylor-Gooby 2001) but the previous expansion of the welfare state has also produced its own constituency in the form of a number of strong interest groups (e.g. the pensioner lobby)…”
Pension Funding and Individual Accounts in Economies with Life-Cyclers and Myopes (2010, methodology): “The conditional survival probabilities ψj are computed from the year 2000 Life Tables for Germany reported in Bomsdorf (2003). With respect to the preference parameters we set the intertemporal elasticity of substitution γ to 0.”
Job Security and Job Protection (2005, neutral): “As Boeri et al. (2001) 27One component of EPL, severance payments, which is a pure transfer from firm to (former) worker, potentially plays a true insurance role.”
Policy Uncertainty and Household Savings (2012, background): “5 Boeri, Börsch-Supan, and Tabellini (2001), using survey data, analyze the opinions of European citizens regarding pension reform, trying to understand why a political consensus is so difficult to achieve.”
The Self-Transformation of the European Social Model(s)* (2002, background): “The aspirations of full employment, universal access to health care and education, adequate social insurance for sickness, disability, unemployment and old age, and minimum resources of social assistance to prevent poverty and reduce social exclusion, are widely accepted by European publics and deep”
Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility (2009, neutral): “Labor market and welfare reforms , which always entail short-term costs for parts of the electorate, typically are unpopular and therefore not very attractive for office-seeking policy makers (Esping-Andersen 1996, Pierson 1996, Boeri et al. 2001).”
Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution (2010, neutral): “A third approach seeks to solve this problem through Contingent Valuation (CV) experiments [see e.g. Boeri et al. (2001)1, Boeri, Boersch-Supan and Tabellini (2002)].”
Institutions versus market forces: Explaining the employment insecurity of European individuals during (the beginning of) the financial crisis (2011, background): “Certainly, the main role of EPL for regular workers is to protect workers from the risk of job loss, but this may only be valid for workers with permanent contracts (Boeri et al., 2001: 21).”
Does information increase political support for pension reform? (2010, critical): “The finding that age does not systematically explain policy preferences with respect to pensions is more surprising, however, and contradicts earlier findings by Boeri et al. (2001, 2002).”
‘New politics’ in German labour market policy? The implications of the recent Hartz reforms for the German welfare state (2006, background): “In general, popular support for the welfare state is high (Boeri et al. 2001), and the political system entails a complicated set of checks and balances leaning very much towards gradual solutions rather than ‘cold turkey policies’.”