This paper studies the effects of the structural variables of the Iranian industries sector on the welfare cost using to the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) theory. In other words, we investigate the role of structural components and their effects on the size of the welfare cost in Iran's industry sector. We have used the Leibenstein's model to calculate the deadweight loss and then the pan...

ANALYSING THE NATURE and effects of labour's relationship to the welfare state has been a vexed enterprise. On the one hand, labour has long been suspicious of the welfare state as a weapon to undermine working-class radicalism. On the other hand, labour has sought to support the welfare state as a means of easing the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation. This ambivalence, in part, reflect...

In this study we test the hypothesis that stringent state welfare policies promote adolescents’ enrollment and reduce their employment. The underlying mechanisms operate in the larger society, the local labor market and the family, particularly for adolescents from low-income families. We use static and dynamic models and separate out welfare policies from non-welfare state policies, youth-spec...

social rights is set of rights and supports that through which the welfare, prosperity and welfare to peak and lack of well-being reaches a minimum.. whereas in western systems, pro-government social rights new born and emerged dice the model socialist state& with the aim of deter the masses from resorting to socialist revolution, islam from the very early formation of their, been noted importa...

When analysing the legitimacy of the welfare state, perceptions of the overuse and underuse of welfare are of great importance. Previous literature suggests that many people perceive overuse (misuse or fraud), and there is evidence that people also perceive underuse (non-take-up) of welfare benefits. Perceptions of overuse have therefore been called ‘the Achilles’ heel of welfare state legitima...

Welfare-state measures often tend to persist even when they seem to have become suboptimal due to changes in the economic environment. This paper proposes an information-based explanation for this welfare-state persistence. I present a structural model where rationally inattentive voters decide upon implementations and removals of social insurance. In this model, welfarestate persistence arises...

Many believe that the welfare state undermines productivity, economic growth and development; that the United States has an unusually small welfare state; and finally that the United States is and always has been a welfare state laggard. This paper shows that all three propositions are false when one includes education along with cash benefits and health care support as part of the welfare stat...