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Does the State Benefit Labor? A Cross-Country Comparison of the Net Social Wage

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  • Thanasis Maniatis

    (University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

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This article discusses the empirical literature on the net transfer between labor and the state. It also provides international comparisons of the net social wage in the United States and other advanced capitalist economies on a consistent basis. The results indicate that the welfare state in the United States differs significantly in its impact on the income of labor from other advanced capitalist countries. This claim is based on the fact that the net social wage ratio in the United States is much smaller than that of other countries when all are estimated by the same empirical method.

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  • Thanasis Maniatis, 2014. "Does the State Benefit Labor? A Cross-Country Comparison of the Net Social Wage," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 46(1), pages 15-34, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:46:y:2014:i:1:p:15-34
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    Keywords

    welfare state; net transfer; net social wage;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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