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The Assessment: The Future of the Welfare State

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The welfare state is highly diverse and relatively new. Throughout the developed world there are suggestions of crisis, although the nature of the crisis is often ill defined. Pressures to increase spending exist and are powerful, both because of demographic and social change, and because of increasing expectations. But the common suggestion that we cannot afford the welfare state is misleading. The appropriate question is whether or not we are willing to engage in increasing amounts of redistribution. Simply shifting responsibilities to the private sector will do little unless we change our distributional goals, and by making public provision more redistributive, may make taxation less popular than it is already. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Dilnot, Andrew, 1995. "The Assessment: The Future of the Welfare State," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 11(3), pages 1-10, Autumn.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:11:y:1995:i:3:p:1-10
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    1. Kaschützke, B. & Maurer, R., 2016. "Investing and Portfolio Allocation for Retirement," Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, in: Piggott, John & Woodland, Alan (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 0, pages 567-608, Elsevier.
    2. Thanasis Maniatis, 2003. "The net social wage in greece 1958-95," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 377-398.
    3. Panos TSAKLOGLOU & Christos KOUTSAMBELAS, 2008. "Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers in Greece," EcoMod2008 23800144, EcoMod.
    4. Regina T. Riphahn, 1999. "Income and employment effects of health shocks A test case for the German welfare state," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 12(3), pages 363-389.
    5. Ben Fine, 1999. "Whither the Welfare State: Public versus Private Consumption?," Working Papers 92, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK.

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