Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8041-0856 and Tselios, Vassilis
(2012)
Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated.
Environment and Planning A, 44 (1).
pp. 125-149.
ISSN 0308-518X
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.envplan.com/A.html |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > LF Individual institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2012 16:14 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/42140 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
