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Welfare and work incentives : a North European perspective

Title
Welfare and work incentives : a North European perspective / edited by A.B. Atkinson and Gunnar Viby Mogensen.
Publication
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017.
  • Mogensen, Gunnar Viby.
Description
xv, 324 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  • The countries of Northern Europe have high taxes, and benefit levels well above the average for the industrialised world. An important issue for these countries today is the extent to which these high taxes and high benefits act as a disincentive to work, and this lucid and accessible study explores this phenomenon with particular reference to the countries of Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Denmark.
  • The editors, Professor A. B. Atkinson and Gunnar Viby Mogensen, have assembled a series of chapters which together provide a unified comparative study of the microeconomic process whereby high taxes and high benefits act as disincentives to work. The contributors analyse the current debate on changes to the welfare state system, and illuminate the macroeconomic policy issue of the relation between tax receipts and benefit expenditure.
  • This book contains much useful empirical evidence from the countries studied, and a detailed survey of the varying labour market institutions in Northern Europe. In all, the book represents a valuable addition to the literature in its focus on European rather than American labour supply experience
Subject
  • Hard-core unemployed > Employment > Europe, Northern > Congresses
  • Welfare recipients > Employment > Europe, Northern > Congresses
  • Income tax > Europe, Northern > Congresses
  • Welfare state > Congresses
  • Work and family > Europe, Northern > Congresses
  • Welfare state
  • Western Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-316) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction / A. B. Atkinson -- 2. Work Incentives / A. B. Atkinson -- 3. Taxes and Transfers in Sweden: Incentive Effects on Labour Supply / Bjorn Gustafsson and N. Anders Klevmarken -- 4. Taxation and Labour-Supply Incentives in the UK / Richard Blundell -- 5. Have Social-Security Benefits Seriously Damaged Work Incentives in Britain? / A. B. Atkinson -- 6. Labour Responses to Taxes and Benefits in Germany / Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 7. The Welfare State and Taxation in Denmark / Peder J. Pedersen -- 8. Conclusions / A. B. Atkinson.
ISBN
0198288603 (alk. paper) :
LCCN
93036732
OCLC
ocm29029430
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries