Globalization, Migration, and Welfare State
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This book is about three key dimensions in economics-globalization, migration and the welfare state-that are of enduring interest. These issues are particularly important to consider at the present moment given the strains posed by the pandemic: there is at least a temporary setback to trade-globalization and migration, and the cost of fighting the pandemic will strain the ability of governments to provide welfare state services in a style and scope to which many of their citizens have become accustomed. The book explains the changing function of the welfare state in the presence of intensified globalization, or de-globalization, forces. The welfare state's policy-maker attitudes toward openness and migration depend on open-economy fundamentals, and the income class it represents. The author demonstrates the interactions between migration, globalization and macroeconomic policy in practice, using real-world unique episodes, with Israel deemed as well-functioning trifecta, and the US and Europe as imperfectly functioning trifecta.
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Chapter 1 Introducing Pandemic Crisis.- Chapter 2 Migration and Welfare-State Policy.- Chapter 3 Globalization and Welfare-State Policy.- Chapter 4 Free Migration: Israel's Experience.- Chapter 5 Globalization: Israel's Experience.- Chapter 6 Federal Systems: US-EU Comparison.
