Essays about: "welfare state generosity"
Found 4 essays containing the words welfare state generosity.
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1. SELF-INTEREST OR SOLIDARITY? An examination of rising income inequality’s effect on attitudes toward welfare spending among high- income earners in Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : With rising inequality all over the world and simultaneous concern about the economic viability of the welfare state model, research has paid increasing attention to how economic inequality affects public opinion towards welfare policy in developed welfare states. Where earlier results and cross-country comparisons have given contradictory results of this relationship, this paper looks at how attitudes toward welfare spending generosity among income groups in Sweden have developed since 1996 in the context of rising income inequality. READ MORE
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2. Who fills the income protection gap? : An empirical analysis of the development of complementary unemployment insurance in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The Swedish welfare state is often conceived as a universal and encompassing welfare state. However, research has shown significant contractions of coverage and benefit levels in several Swedish welfare programs in the last 20 years. One such program is the unemployment insurance. READ MORE
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3. Welfare state generosity and national identity: A study on institutions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : National identity has in a growing field of literature been proposed as a possible tool which, if manipulated, can be used to construct institutions of social justice and particularly a redistributive welfare state. In contrast, decades of welfare state research is largely in consensus that redistributive welfare states were created in response to societal issues such as poverty, emigration and declining fertility rates. READ MORE
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4. For better or for worse? Happiness among unemployed in 19 European countries - The effect of the economic crisis of 2008
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : As previous research has shown that unemployment is followed by lower levels of happiness and life-satisfaction, few studies have examined how this relationship is affected by an economic crisis. The economic crisis, which hit Europe in the autumn of 2008, provides an interesting case for such analysis. READ MORE
