Living Wages and the Welfare State

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
State Change ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Living Wages ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Welfare State

Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative. Topical and poignant, this book identifies the success of living wage campaigns as central to both welfare state change and alternatives to the Basic Income.

The Welfare State and Its Rivals

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-151
Author(s):  
Daniel Halliday ◽  
John Thrasher
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter looks at some leading proposals for dealing with the fact that the labor market confers rewards unequally. Over the years, governments have made various attempts to correct for this by regulating or intervening with the labor market, such as the minimum wage and the welfare state. After discussing these familiar solutions, the chapter examines some proposals that have not (yet) been widely implemented through labor market legislation, such as universal basic income. These proposals have interesting philosophical arguments behind them and which seek to improve on what governments currently do. They also raise a number of interesting questions about the nature of work and ideas of meritocracy in the workplace.

The Second Marriage of Justice and Efficiency

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe van Parijs
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTNo major reform of the welfare state has a chance of going through unless one can make a plausible case as to both its ‘ethical value’ and its ‘economic.value’, that is, that it would have a positive effect in terms of both justice and efficiency. In this essay, this rough conjecture is first presented, and its plausibility probed, on the background of some stylised facts about the rise of modern welfare states in the postwar period. Next, the focus is shifted to the current debate on the introduction of a basic income, a completely unconditional grant paid ex ante to all citizens. It is argued that if basic income is to have a chance of meeting the strong twofold condition stipulated in the conjecture, some major changes are required in the way one usually thinks about justice and efficiency in connection with social policy. But once these changes are made, as they arguably must be, the chance that basic income may be able to meet the challenge is greatly enhanced.

The Political Economy of the Welfare State.

1983 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 734
Author(s):  
John B. Williamson ◽  
Thomas Wilson ◽  
Dorothy J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals Citizens’ Opinions About Basic Income Proposals Compared – A Conjoint Analysis of Finland and Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABELLE STADELMANN-STEFFEN ◽  
CLAU DERMONT
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Exact Design ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractThe basic income (BI) scheme is a fundamental reform of the welfare state that has recently gained widespread attention. Proposals for different variants of BI schemes have emerged to account for varying political and societal goals. This study investigates what citizens think about the idea of a BI, and to what extent citizens’ perceptions depend on the exact design of such a scheme and the context in which this policy is embedded. Empirically, we rely on conjoint experiments conducted in Finland and Switzerland – the two countries in which the introduction of a BI scheme has recently been discussed most intensely. We find that the level of public support for BI is higher in Finland than it is in Switzerland. Moreover, despite the contrasting designs of the BI proposals in the two countries, both Finnish and Swiss citizens tend to favor more generous schemes restricting non-nationals’ access to the provision.

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