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In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries. The considerable size of this spending as a percentage of GDP together with the ageing population raise doubts on the sustainability of welfare spending. These doubts have been accompanied in recent years by an increasing awareness of the allocational inefficiencies and the distributive inequalities caused by the provision of some social services. The welfare state should therefore be reconstructed not only through readjustment of the social security system but also a change in unemployment benefits and the taxation of workers to avoid the perverse spiral that may be produced in the future by cuts in welfare benefits, growing unemployment and the need to further reduce the social security services.
ISBN: 9780312160142
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 426
Produktart: Gebunden
Herausgeber: Baldassarri, Mario Paganetto, Luigi Phelps, Edmund S.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Veröffentlicht: 12.07.1996
Untertitel: The Future of the Welfare State
Schlagworte: aging competition economic growth economic policy efficiency employment labor market labor markets poverty service

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