منابع مشابه
The Welfare State
history of Great Britain from 1945 to the present day'. It covers not only the legislation which established what we have come to know as the Welfare State, but aspects such as population growth, geographical environment, and the development of the nationa-lised industries. The sections on health services are relatively small, but related to the wider context of national culture. Whilst the mai...
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Wellbeing' and 'welfare' are often bracketed together, in particular wellbeing and state-welfare. The level of wellbeing is believed to be higher in welfare states, and its distribution more equitable. This theory is tested in a comparative study of 40 nations 1980-1990. The size of state welfare is measured by social security expenditure. The wellbeing of citizens is measured in terms of the d...
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In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two-country model with exportables, importables and nontraclables to study redistribution across different types of agents in a world characterized by the presence of labor unions and distortionary ta...
متن کاملThe Welfare State and Redistribution
Because it taxes and spends, the welfare state is by definition redistributive, but this does not automatically entail that it creates more equality. A quick historical glance at social reform will dispel of any notion that the welfare state was pursued for egalitarian reasons. Its foundations were typically laid by conservative reformers who, like Bismarck, sought primarily to reproduce, rathe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Journal of Media Studies
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2003-184X
DOI: 10.2478/njms-2020-0004