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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 metaphoric...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34432792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255760 |