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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18265| Title: | To aid, insure, transfer, or control : what drives the welfare state? |
| Keywords: | H5 I3 ddc:330 Sozialstaat Öffentliche Sozialausgaben Public Choice Schätzung Industriestaaten |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | The paper uses panel data on OECD countries to assess four theories about the forces that generate social spending. The four theories are: Aid: the Welfare State is about helping the poor. Insure: the Welfare State insures the consumption of middle-class voters. Transfer: the Welfare State transfers money to politically-powerful entitled groups. Control: the Welfare State is about controlling the behavior of the underclass. The data give the following grades: Aid D-, Insure C+, Transfer A-, Control D. This assessment is made by regressing the share of social spending in GDP on a vector of country characteristics. The methods involve simultaneous equation fixed-effects models, and they take advantage of some recent innovations in the growth literature involving the treatment of country-level panel data |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18265 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18265 ppn:353289760 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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