Arbeitspapier
To aid, insure, transfer, or control : what drives the welfare state?
The paper uses panel data on OECD countries to assess four theories about the forces that generate social spending. The four theories are: Aid: the Welfare State is about helping the poor. Insure: the Welfare State insures the consumption of middle-class voters. Transfer: the Welfare State transfers money to politically-powerful entitled groups. Control: the Welfare State is about controlling the behavior of the underclass. The data give the following grades: Aid D-, Insure C+, Transfer A-, Control D. This assessment is made by regressing the share of social spending in GDP on a vector of country characteristics. The methods involve simultaneous equation fixed-effects models, and they take advantage of some recent innovations in the growth literature involving the treatment of country-level panel data
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 281
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Sozialstaat
Öffentliche Sozialausgaben
Public Choice
Schätzung
Industriestaaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Castronova, Edward
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
- (wo)
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Berlin
- (wann)
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Castronova, Edward
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2002
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