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But, when firms’ efforts to create shareholder value lead to such far-reaching consequences – or “externalities,” in economists’ parlance – for the rest of society, the argument that self-interest advances social welfare falls apart.
The “universal credit” program replaces six different welfare benefits – such as the child tax credit and the housing benefit – with one.
But, for all the dramatic headlines, there is a deeper, unreported problem with the UK’s welfare reform: rather than reduce poverty, it could actually exacerbate it.
Their study holds two lessons that should be considered in evaluating the latest overhaul of the UK’s welfare system.
Britain’s latest welfare reforms will push many recipients into a similar calculus, given that many of the poor have had their support reduced.
This was not the original goal of the “universal credit” system, but a government seeking to cut spending found slashing welfare to be irresistible.
Taken together, these factors are leaving welfare recipients worse off.
Policymakers should read Mullainathan and Shafir, and consider how their research could be applied to future welfare reforms.
By definition, their welfare is being discounted.
Just ask an older person with an inadequate (or nonexistent) pension whether his present welfare is worth less than his past consumption.
They may be protected under animal welfare legislation, but that is not enough to prevent them being things, because antiquities and areas of natural beauty are also protected.
In 2009, the European Union amended its fundamental treaty to include a statement that because animals are sentient beings, the EU and its member states must, in formulating policies for agriculture, fisheries, research, and several other areas, “pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”
Causing loss of lives does not contribute to the present or future welfare of the people of the region.
Old Europe has entered into a severe and intractable crisis of the welfare state as ordinary Europeans have come to know it.
Now, after one generation of economic and demographic stagnation, the welfare state can be financed only by issuing more public debt.
It needs to be explained why the euro remains the best protection there is against inflation, the most dangerous social ill of all; why government stimulus will not work and never actually has delivered sustained growth; and why a new equilibrium between welfare and economic dynamism – based on less public debt and more private investment – must be established.
In the 1990s, dozens of academic papers addressed the issue of migration into welfare states, discussing many of the problems that are now becoming apparent.
In such cases, countries can act as welfare magnets, attracting many more migrants than would be economically advisable, because the newcomers receive, in addition to their wages, a migration grant in the form of public transfers.
Even if they find a job, says Cameron, migrants should get access to tax-financed welfare benefits only after four years.
It is difficult to see why, for example, a German welfare recipient who is unfit for work should be supported by the Spanish state if he decides to live in Mallorca.
But, for the same reasons outlined above, these migrants cannot be integrated by the hundreds of thousands into the welfare state without jeopardizing the system’s viability.
Andrea Nahles, Germany’s labor minister, recently suggested as much, defending what Germans call the one-euro-jobs concept, which basically converts welfare into a wage.
If freedom of movement within Europe is to be maintained – and if high inflows of non-EU citizens continue – European welfare states face a stark choice: adjust or collapse.
In the meantime, Western welfare states will remain financially unviable, economically sickly, and politically strained.
Economic welfare is not the same as social wellbeing.
Immigration thus enables a larger population to enjoy the same standard of living as the smaller population did before – a clear improvement in total welfare.
A too-rapid inflow of immigrants weakens bonds of solidarity, and, in the long run, erodes the affective ties required to sustain the welfare state.
Reform of the hukou (residency permit) system to allow citizens to transfer their welfare benefits from one city to another is vital for an increasingly flexible labor force that now includes almost 200 million migrant workers.
The key driver of the EU’s regulatory onslaught is not concern for the welfare of ordinary Europeans; it is the lobbying power of protectionist German businesses and their corporatist champions in government.
with establishing the first welfare state in Latin America.
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