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Elderly bias, new social risks and social spending
— change and timing in eight programmes across four worlds of welfare, 1980-2003 | | Author(s) | Markus Tepe, Pieter Vanhuysse |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 20, no 3, July 2010 |
| Pages | pp 217-234 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com doi:10.1177/0958928710364436 |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Public expenditure ; Social economics ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; International. |
| Annotation | Over the past decades, all affluent welfare states have been coping with two major new trends: population ageing and new social risks resulting from de-industrialization. How have these demand-side trends, and their timing, affected welfare spending? The authors investigate up to 21 OECD democracies with respect to eight separate programmes and two composite indicators of aggregate welfare spending bias towards older people and new social risks. They found that welfare regime logics still matter crucially in accounting for variation between countries, as does the timing of the large-scale arrival of new social risks. Both Southern European welfare states and countries that entered the post-industrial society comparatively late spend less on programmes such as education and family allowances, and more on survivor pensions. However within countries, contemporaneous levels of new social risks conspicuously fail to affect spending on programmes that deal with these risks. These findings defy simple neo-pluralist expectations of social policy responsiveness: on their own, even dramatic demand-side trends influence welfare spending relatively little in advanced democracies. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100809214 A |
| Classmark | TY: WN8: W4: 48: 3J: 72 |
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