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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated

Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated
Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated
This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, we show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and education. First, people-based and household-based effects (internal returns to education, and household wage and education externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work which are stronger in countries with the weakest welfare systems, that is, those with what is known as 'residual' welfare regimes (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal). Second, place-based effects and, more specifically, differences in regional wage per capita and educational endowment and in regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare regimes. Place-based effects have the greatest impact in the Nordic social-democratic welfare systems. The results are robust to the inclusion of a large number of people-based and place-based controls.
welfare regimes, wages, education, incentives, regions, EU
0308-518X
125-149
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés
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Tselios, Vassilis
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Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés
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Tselios, Vassilis
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Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés and Tselios, Vassilis (2012) Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated. Environment and Planning A, 44 (1), 125-149. (doi:10.1068/a44102).

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This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, we show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and education. First, people-based and household-based effects (internal returns to education, and household wage and education externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work which are stronger in countries with the weakest welfare systems, that is, those with what is known as 'residual' welfare regimes (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal). Second, place-based effects and, more specifically, differences in regional wage per capita and educational endowment and in regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare regimes. Place-based effects have the greatest impact in the Nordic social-democratic welfare systems. The results are robust to the inclusion of a large number of people-based and place-based controls.

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Published date: 21 June 2012
Keywords: welfare regimes, wages, education, incentives, regions, EU
Organisations: Economy, Society and Space

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Local EPrints ID: 340925
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340925
ISSN: 0308-518X
PURE UUID: ff5367cd-3bc7-42f7-bfa4-bf0287876aa7

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Date deposited: 06 Jul 2012 13:40
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 11:31

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Author: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Author: Vassilis Tselios

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