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European Integration and the Future of the Welfare State

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Sinn, Hans-Werner

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This paper argues that increased factor mobility incurs the risk of dismantling the welfare state, even though this state may have useful allocative functions. It will be difficult to finance the welfare state with taxes on capital and it may be necessary to subsidize this factor in the sense that some of the infrastructure it uses will have to be covered by taxes on other factors. In general, redistribution activities are underprovided, since they provide other countries with positive policy externalities. To overcome these difficulties and to make competition among welfare states workable, the paper suggests taxing capital income on a cash flow basis and other incomes on the basis of a nationality principle.

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Keywords: European Integration; Welfare State;

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H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations

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  1. Wildasin, David E, 1991. "Income Redistribution in a Common Labor Market," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 81(4), pages 757-74, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Agell, Jonas & Englund, Peter & Södersten, Jan, 1996. "Tax Reform of the Century - The Swedish Experiment," Working Paper Series 1996:13, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
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  3. Howitt, Peter & Sinn, Hans-Werner, 1989. "Gradual Reforms of Capital Income Taxation," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 79(1), pages 106-24, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Leon Bettendorf & Joeri Gorter & Albert van der Horst, 2006. "Who benefits from tax competition in the European Union?," CPB Documents 125, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. [Downloadable!]
  2. Kari E. Alho, 2002. "Labour Markets and Immigration Connected to Enlargement," Discussion Papers 791, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Sinn, Hans-Werner, 1999. "Inflation and Welfare: Comment on Robert Lucas," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Alan Krueger, 1999. "From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact," Working Papers 803, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.. [Downloadable!]
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  6. DREZE, Jacques, 2000. "Economic and social security in the twenty-first century, with attention to Europe," CORE Discussion Papers 2000015, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). [Downloadable!]
  7. Yoram Weiss, 1973. "The Wealth Effect in Occupational Choice," Working Papers 424, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.. [Downloadable!]
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