The aim of this paper is to assess the ability of social spending to smooth output shocks and to provide stabilization. The results show that overall social spending is able to smooth about 16 percent of a shock to GDP. Among its subcategories, social spending devoted to Old Age and Unemployment are those that contribute more to provide smoothing. Moreover, the stabilization effects of social spending are significantly larger in those countries where the size of social spending is higher. The empirical results are economically and statistically significant and robust. Les effets de stabilisation des dépenses sociales : Étude empirique sur un échantillon de pays de l'OCDE L’objectif de ce document est d’évaluer la capacité des dépenses socia...
This report analyses and seeks to establish whether and how, in the last twenty years, the EU member...
This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax a...
This paper provides a novel dataset of time-varying measures of social spending cyclicality for an u...
The aim of this paper is to assess the ability of social spending to smooth output shocks and to pro...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
The aim of this paper is to assess the effects of social spending on economic activity. Using a pane...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
Social policy measures and the social systems markedly mitigated the effects of the severe financial...
This paper analyses the trends of general government expenditures in the European Union. Government ...
In this paper, we study the effects of social spending on long-term economic performance in the USA ...
Following the present atmosphere of budgetary cuts we analyze the effects of fiscal consolidation on...
The empirical study of the welfare state suffers from non-cumulative findings. Empirically, dozens o...
Social spending programs began to be implemented in the post-World War II period owing to the positi...
Official calculations of automatic stabilizers are seriously flawed since they rest on the assumptio...
This report analyses and seeks to establish whether and how, in the last twenty years, the EU member...
This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax a...
This paper provides a novel dataset of time-varying measures of social spending cyclicality for an u...
The aim of this paper is to assess the ability of social spending to smooth output shocks and to pro...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
The aim of this paper is to assess the effects of social spending on economic activity. Using a pane...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
The macroeconomic literature on automatic stabilization tends to focus on taxes and dismiss the rele...
Social policy measures and the social systems markedly mitigated the effects of the severe financial...
This paper analyses the trends of general government expenditures in the European Union. Government ...
In this paper, we study the effects of social spending on long-term economic performance in the USA ...
Following the present atmosphere of budgetary cuts we analyze the effects of fiscal consolidation on...
The empirical study of the welfare state suffers from non-cumulative findings. Empirically, dozens o...
Social spending programs began to be implemented in the post-World War II period owing to the positi...
Official calculations of automatic stabilizers are seriously flawed since they rest on the assumptio...
This report analyses and seeks to establish whether and how, in the last twenty years, the EU member...
This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax a...
This paper provides a novel dataset of time-varying measures of social spending cyclicality for an u...