Stefan Thewissen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4265035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Thewissen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thewissen |
| SIGNATURE | THEWISSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3907-1976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Competing With the Dragon
China’s rapid rise on the global economic stage has substantial and unequal employment effects in advanced industrialized democracies given China’s large volume of low-wage labor. Thus far, these effects have not been analyzed in the comparative political economy literature. Building on pooled time-series data, we analyze the effects of Chinese trade competition across 17 sectors in 18 countries. We devote attention to a new channel, increased co…
Automation and the Welfare State
Technological change is widely considered to be a key driver of the economic and occupational structure of affluent countries. Current advances in information technology have led to a significant substitution of routine work by capital, while occupations with abstract or interpersonal manual task structures are complemented or unaffected. We develop a simple theoretical framework for the reasons why individuals in routine task-intensive occupatio…
Median Household Income and GDP
This chapter investigates the extent to which real income growth for households around the middle is seen to diverge from growth in national income per head—the most widely-used metric for assessing overall macroeconomic performance. While the concentration of income gains at the top of the distribution examined in Chapter 3 is one potential explanation, it is by no means the only one. A range of distinct factors that may contribute are described…
Sources of Household Income Growth in Rich Countries
This chapter seeks to capture what underpins patterns of real income growth versus stagnation for those around and below the middle by distinguishing the different sources of income they receive—in terms of the earnings of different household members, investment income, pensions, and social transfers, as well as the direct taxes and social insurance contributions deducted. The role each of these sources play in household income and its growth ove…
Fair Progress
Fair Progress? Economic Mobility Across Generations Around the World looks at an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but with, for the first time, new data and analysis covering most of the world, including developing economies. The analysis examines whether those born in poverty or in prosperity are destined to remain in the same economic circumstances into which they were born, and looks back over a half a century at wh…
Allocation of development assistance for health
Gross national income (GNI) per capita is widely regarded as a key determinant of health outcomes. Major donors heavily rely on GNI per capita to allocate development assistance for health (DAH). This article questions this paradigm by analysing the determinants of health outcomes using cross-sectional data from 99 countries in 2012. We use disability-adjusted life years (Group I) per capita as our main indicator for health outcomes. We consider …
Taking the Sector Seriously
Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth
Journal Article Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth? Get access Stefan Thewissen Stefan Thewissen * Leiden University, Department of Economics, the Netherlands *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 545–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwt019 Published: 23 October 2013
Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden
Although long‐term processes of welfare state development have been investigated frequently, there is a surprising gap in knowledge on short‐term reactions of states to sudden events. This article aims to fill this gap by examining the reactive policies, i.e. immediate policy responses to urgent social matters, of governments to the current economic crisis. We focus on social and unemployment policies of the three welfare regime ideal types of Es…
Automation and the Welfare State
Technological change is widely considered to be a key driver of the economic and occupational structure of affluent countries. Current advances in information technology have led to a significant substitution of routine work by capital, while occupations with abstract or interpersonal manual task structures are complemented or unaffected. We develop a simple theoretical framework for the reasons why individuals in routine task-intensive occupatio…
Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden
Although long‐term processes of welfare state development have been investigated frequently, there is a surprising gap in knowledge on short‐term reactions of states to sudden events. This article aims to fill this gap by examining the reactive policies, i.e. immediate policy responses to urgent social matters, of governments to the current economic crisis. We focus on social and unemployment policies of the three welfare regime ideal types of Es…
Competing With the Dragon
China’s rapid rise on the global economic stage has substantial and unequal employment effects in advanced industrialized democracies given China’s large volume of low-wage labor. Thus far, these effects have not been analyzed in the comparative political economy literature. Building on pooled time-series data, we analyze the effects of Chinese trade competition across 17 sectors in 18 countries. We devote attention to a new channel, increased co…
Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth
Journal Article Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth? Get access Stefan Thewissen Stefan Thewissen * Leiden University, Department of Economics, the Netherlands *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 545–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwt019 Published: 23 October 2013
Taking the Sector Seriously
Allocation of development assistance for health
Gross national income (GNI) per capita is widely regarded as a key determinant of health outcomes. Major donors heavily rely on GNI per capita to allocate development assistance for health (DAH). This article questions this paradigm by analysing the determinants of health outcomes using cross-sectional data from 99 countries in 2012. We use disability-adjusted life years (Group I) per capita as our main indicator for health outcomes. We consider …
Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden
Although long‐term processes of welfare state development have been investigated frequently, there is a surprising gap in knowledge on short‐term reactions of states to sudden events. This article aims to fill this gap by examining the reactive policies, i.e. immediate policy responses to urgent social matters, of governments to the current economic crisis. We focus on social and unemployment policies of the three welfare regime ideal types of Es…
Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth
Journal Article Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth? Get access Stefan Thewissen Stefan Thewissen * Leiden University, Department of Economics, the Netherlands *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 545–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwt019 Published: 23 October 2013
Median Household Income and GDP
This chapter investigates the extent to which real income growth for households around the middle is seen to diverge from growth in national income per head—the most widely-used metric for assessing overall macroeconomic performance. While the concentration of income gains at the top of the distribution examined in Chapter 3 is one potential explanation, it is by no means the only one. A range of distinct factors that may contribute are described…
Sources of Household Income Growth in Rich Countries
This chapter seeks to capture what underpins patterns of real income growth versus stagnation for those around and below the middle by distinguishing the different sources of income they receive—in terms of the earnings of different household members, investment income, pensions, and social transfers, as well as the direct taxes and social insurance contributions deducted. The role each of these sources play in household income and its growth ove…
Fair Progress
Fair Progress? Economic Mobility Across Generations Around the World looks at an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but with, for the first time, new data and analysis covering most of the world, including developing economies. The analysis examines whether those born in poverty or in prosperity are destined to remain in the same economic circumstances into which they were born, and looks back over a half a century at wh…
Allocation of development assistance for health
Gross national income (GNI) per capita is widely regarded as a key determinant of health outcomes. Major donors heavily rely on GNI per capita to allocate development assistance for health (DAH). This article questions this paradigm by analysing the determinants of health outcomes using cross-sectional data from 99 countries in 2012. We use disability-adjusted life years (Group I) per capita as our main indicator for health outcomes. We consider …
Taking the Sector Seriously
Competing With the Dragon
China’s rapid rise on the global economic stage has substantial and unequal employment effects in advanced industrialized democracies given China’s large volume of low-wage labor. Thus far, these effects have not been analyzed in the comparative political economy literature. Building on pooled time-series data, we analyze the effects of Chinese trade competition across 17 sectors in 18 countries. We devote attention to a new channel, increased co…
Automation and the Welfare State
Technological change is widely considered to be a key driver of the economic and occupational structure of affluent countries. Current advances in information technology have led to a significant substitution of routine work by capital, while occupations with abstract or interpersonal manual task structures are complemented or unaffected. We develop a simple theoretical framework for the reasons why individuals in routine task-intensive occupatio…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Distribution (mathematics) (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Income distribution (3 works)