Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Friedrich Schneider,
"An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale"
, in Kyklos, Vol. 63, Nummer 1, Wiley Online Library, Seite(n) 55-74, 2010, ISSN: 1467-6435
Original Titel:
An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say?s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about theempirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses.We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we analyze the impact of the welfare state on the respective social norm, i.e. benefit morale. It turns out that a high level of public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on benefit morale,
which however is (partly) crowded out by adverse medium and long run effects. In contrast to earlier studies we do not find that younger birth cohorts have lower values of benefit morale.
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