Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups.

Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) 'the lifecycle' (the piggy bank). But what is the relative importance of these functions? The answer has been elusive, as the piggy bank is...

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Auteurs principaux: Pieter Vanhuysse, Marton Medgyesi, Robert I Gal
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/b391cf5fb34e46aca949448f8d2d6e7e
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