{"title":"Do Parties Still Matter in Protecting the Unemployed? A Contextualized Comparison of Great Britain, Sweden and Germany","authors":"Frank Bandau","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2472501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2472501","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that a more contextualized approach is necessary to shed a brighter light on the question of party convergence in social policy making. Such a contextualized comparison not only considers different political-institutional settings, it also accounts for country-specific differences in the structure and generosity of existing welfare programs and party legacies. Thereby, it is possible to identify differing issues at the heart of the left-right conflict in the same policy area within different countries. Comparing changes in these nominally different but analytically equivalent issues under the influence of increasing external pressures promises insights not obtainable by customary ‘matched comparisons’. Empirically, the paper concentrates on party struggles over unemployment protection systems in Great Britain, Sweden and Germany.","PeriodicalId":347116,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Social Welfare Policy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115707523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"European Policies on Land Compensation and Support for Displaced Rural Workers: Relevance to China","authors":"M. Cousins","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2159094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2159094","url":null,"abstract":"This report examines the position of farmers who have lost their land (or displaced rural workers) in China. It studies policies adopted in three EU countries (France, Poland and the UK) to provide compensation for land which has been compulsorily purchased; and to provide social policy support to displaced rural workers. It draws out the possible implications of these EU experiences for China.","PeriodicalId":347116,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Social Welfare Policy (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134196197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guaranteed Student Loans and Subsidies: Who Captures the Rents?","authors":"D. Austin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1288368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1288368","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes effects of borrower interest rates and student lender subsidies on federally guaranteed student loan volumes from 1988 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2006. In present and past policy debates, some have contended that lender subsidy cuts would cause some lenders to reduce loan supply or to leave the student loan market. A simple model of the student loan market suggests that if lenders receive economic rents due to overly generous subsidies, small changes in subsidy levels should not affect loan supply. The empirical results based on a variety of GMM panel estimators find evidence of a link between higher SAP margins and higher loan volumes is weak or inconclusive for both the 1988-1994 and 1996-2006 periods. This suggests that subsidy reductions had no discernable effect on student loan volumes. Results also suggest that higher real borrower interest rates reduce student loan volumes for public colleges and universities.","PeriodicalId":347116,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Social Welfare Policy (Topic)","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122912016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}