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When
is social protection competitiveness-enhancing? A model of costs
and benefits on economic efficiency
European PhD in Socioeconomic and
Statistical Studies
University of Rome La Sapienza
Supervisors: Prof. Nicola Acocella (University of Rome La Sapienza),
Prof. Maite Montagut (Universidad de Barcelona), Prof. Hans-Peter
Müller (Humboldt Universität)
June 2005
Abstract
This work aims to contribute to the contingency view of social protection
and economic efficiency, by exploring some conditions under which
welfare systems can be considered as efficiency-enhancing or not.
The framework I rely upon is the so-called ‘human development
paradigm’, according to which economic, social and fiscal
issues are tightly linked, so that social protection can be analyzed
as a real productive factor. I show the possibility of applying
this paradigm through an analytical model containing the contradictory
effects of social protection on economic efficiency. The effect
is indeed twofold: both short-term financial cost notably in traditional
economic sectors and medium-long-term investment especially in innovative
and creative sectors. What matters in order to evaluate this cost-benefit
analysis is not the expenditure level, but some structural variables,
different by country and time: the distance from the world technological
frontier, the share of productive expenditure out of total social
expenditure, the degree of economic and financial globalisation,
the effectiveness of social expenditure (low distortions), the discount
rate of expected future benefits.
Contact details
Federico Tomassi
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
federico.tomassi@uniroma1.it
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