Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76303 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 931
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We also discuss welfare-state dynamics when there is a time lag in the adjustment of the norm in response to changes in this population share, and show how a temporary shift in the unemployment rate may cause persistence in the number of beneficiaries.
Subjects: 
welfare state
social norms
social insurance
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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