Economic Downturns, Endogenous Government Policy and Welfare Caseloads

Cañón, Luis Ayala; Triguero, Ángela

doi:10.7866/hpe-rpe.17.1.4

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“…Moreover, we also apply the Zivot-Andrews breakpoint unit root test in order to avoid misleading and biased results. We follow Ayala and Triguero (2017) and apply Baum's modified methodology for unit root testing against the alternative of trend stationarity with a shift in time trend, shift in mean, and a shift in both slope and intercept.…”

Section: Insights Into Regional Developmentmentioning

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In this paper, for the first time, we investigate the relationship between infrastructure and sectoral distribution of FDI inflow in China. We use the Estimating Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) procedures of estimation. To unmask the shortcomings in the previous literature, we use a composite index of infrastructure with more than 30 indicators. The results show that there is a long-run relationship between sectoral FDI and infrastructure. A bidirectional causal relationship is confirmed by using VECM. However, we find unidirectional causality between the primary sector's FDI and infrastructure, and it is running from infrastructure to primary sector FDI. The inclusion of control variables, e.g., institutional quality, trade openness, and domestic investment, is robust in our analysis. The positive role of infrastructure in the sectoral distribution of FDI inflows is of utmost importance for policymakers and Chinese-government. Several policy implications are given in our study.

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“…Ayala and Pérez (2005) found that institutional factors were more important in the changes in the caseloads than were macroeconomic conditions. In a more recent contribution, Ayala and Triguero (2017) found that the economic cycle has a great influence on the number of recipients.…”

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“…These possible movements are linked, however, to the questionable assumption that the benefit levels are independent of the economic cycle. One might think that in recessions − as happened in the last crisis (Ayala & Triguero, 2017) − decision‐makers introduce cuts to avoid spending levels on the programmes that are difficult to sustain in contexts of government budget deficits.…”

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The effectiveness of minimum income benefits in poverty reduction in Spain

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One of the greatest peculiarities of the Spanish system of minimum income benefits is its complex organisation. There is a wide variety of specific means‐tested benefits whose management and financing depend on the central government. They are designed to protect different contingencies, providing very different levels of protection. On the other hand, the general risk of poverty is covered by regional governments without any coordination and financing from the central government. In this article, we provide a picture of the possibilities and limits of the current set of welfare benefits, focusing especially on its effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty. Our findings show that most benefits are clearly insufficient to cover the risk of poverty in terms of both incidence and intensity. The results show the need for the redesign of the system to better articulate existing benefits in order to prevent new forms of poverty and to respond to emergency situations. Key Practitioner Message: • The Spanish system of minimum income benefits consists of a varied mosaic of benefits that provide very different levels of protection for individuals or households with similar needs; • The contribution of these benefits to the reduction in poverty in Spain is very modest and significantly lower than that of contributory pensions; • The protection provided by MIBS is also unequal by population categories.

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“…Specifically, the Spanish health sector suffered a reduction of 8,778 million euros in the period 2009-2013, that is 12.5% of reduction, which induce that, according to the reports of the Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria, many primary attention centers closed, and the numbers of beds, operating rooms, and sanitary staff, among others, were drastically reduced, inducing an in-crease in numbers on the waiting lists (43% from 2009 to 2012). All of these adjustments have clearly affected the welfare of the country either economically (Ayala and Triguero, 2017) or socially Cerno, Pérez and Sanz (2017), for instance, with respect to the quality of the Public services.…”

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The Catalan Health Budget: A Conflicting Claims Approach

Solís-Baltodano¹,

Vilella²,

Giménez-Gómez³

2019

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The financial and economic crisis in Spain during recent years has induced public budget adjustments. The crisis has caused a great social impact due to the way the austerity measures have been implemented, affecting mainly key economic sectors such as the civil service, justice, education and health. Among all of these sectors, the current paper focuses on the health budget distribution, since the changes in the provision of the health services induce faster and clearer impacts in the social welfare. Spain is divided into 17 regions, and each region manages its own health system. Specifically, we analyze the Catalan health budget assignment since Catalonia is one of the most populated regions and one where the restrictions have been more evident. We study the health budget distribution for the period 1998-2014, from the point of view of the conflicting claims problem (O'Neill, 1982). Accordingly, alternative allocations of the health budget are proposed by using some of the most used solutions in the body of literature. Finally, in order to choose the most appropriate solution, we require the fulfillment of (i) some equity and stability criteria, and (ii) some commonly accepted social constraints.

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Economic Downturns, Endogenous Government Policy and Welfare Caseloads

Cited by 6 publications

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The Catalan Health Budget: A Conflicting Claims Approach

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