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The Race Among the States in Welfare Benefits: A Comment

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One error in research on the welfare-magnet thesis is its focus on the poor rather than on the well-endowed and mobile economic actors who influence state policymakers. Another error is the assumption that poor people are mobile participants in the game of locational advantage. Yet, unlike well-endowed economic actors who move funds and goods, the poor must move themselves and their own bodies, rather than resources. Hence, it is unlikely that poor people are playing much of a role in any race to the bottom in welfare policymaking. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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  • Frances Fox Piven, 0. "The Race Among the States in Welfare Benefits: A Comment," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 28(3), pages 39-43.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:28:y::i:3:p:39-43
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    1. Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri & Ricardo Aláez-Aller & Pablo Díaz-de-Basurto, 2010. "Measuring is Believing! Improving Conventional Indicators of Welfare State Development," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 96(1), pages 113-131, March.
    2. Erika Ribeiro & Eduardo Almeida, 2015. "Are there evidences of race to the bottom and welfare migration in Brazilians municipalities?," ERSA conference papers ersa15p1433, European Regional Science Association.

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