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The globalisation-welfare state nexus: Evidence from Asia
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have focused on industrialized countries, because social expenditure is difficult to measure in developing countries. I use new data on social expenditure for Asian non-OECD countries. Globalisation is measured by the new KOF Globalisation Index. My results do not suggest that globalisation influenced social expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across high-income countries, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, and lower-income Asian countries or across Asian regions. It is conceivable that Asian citizens did not demand increasing social support when globalisation proceeded rapidly because they enjoyed family and other private assistance. Asian countries also have weaker tax and labour market institutions than OECD countries and have therefore more difficulties in increasing social expenditures.
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Englisch
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 272
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Comparative Studies of Countries
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
compensation hypothesis
race-to-thebottom hypothesis
social expenditure
Asia
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Potrafke, Niklas
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2018
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