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dc.contributor.authorMoene, Karl Oveen
dc.contributor.authorWallerstein, Michaelen
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-20T13:17:55Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-20T13:17:55Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/63207-
dc.description.abstractThe welfare state is generally viewed as either providing redistribution from rich to poor or as providing publicly-financed insurance. Both views are incomplete. Welfare policies provide both insurance and redistribution in varying amounts, depending on the design of the policy. We explore the political consequences of the mix of redistribution and insurance in the context of studying the impact of income inequality on expenditures in different categories of welfare spending in advanced industrial socieities from 1980-1995. We find that spending on pensions, health care, family benefits, poverty alleviation and housing subsidies is largely uncorrelated with income inequality, but that spending on income replacement programs such as unemployment insurance, sickness pay, occupational illness and disability are signinficantly higher in countries with more egalitarian income distributions. We show that this pattern is exactly what a theory of political support for redistributive social insurance programs would predict.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Oslo, Department of Economics |cOsloen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aMemorandum |x2003,18en
dc.subject.jelD62en
dc.subject.jelH23en
dc.subject.jelH53en
dc.subject.jelJ65en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordWelfare stateen
dc.subject.keywordinsuranceen
dc.subject.keywordredistributionen
dc.subject.keywordincome inequalityen
dc.subject.stwEinkommensverteilungen
dc.subject.stwEinkommensumverteilungen
dc.subject.stwSozialstaaten
dc.subject.stwÖffentliche Sozialausgabenen
dc.subject.stwSozialtransferen
dc.subject.stwIndustriestaatenen
dc.titleIncome inequality and welfare spending: A disaggregated analysis-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn366119818en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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