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Social policies and redistribution in Brazil

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial society, marked by the institution of slavery....

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Social policies and redistribution in South Africa

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the effects of social policies on income inequalities in South Africa since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, the heritage of a distributional regime based on institutional racism is highlighted. This had lasting effects on social...

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The end of welfare states as we know them? : a multidimensional perspective

Sowula, Jakub; Gehrig, Franziska; Scruggs, Lyle A.; … - 2023 - Revised in December 2023

This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasises the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach incorporating social spending, welfare state outputs, and outcomes. To illustrate the utility of a...

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Inequality and social policy in Latin America

Lustig, Nora - 2020

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The politics of negative expansion : the Left's turn to fiscal welfare for low-income groups in Britain and France in the 2000s

Touzet, Chloé - 2019

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Imperfect financial markets and the cyclicality of social spending

Froemel, Maren; Paczos, Wojtek - 2024

This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...

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The paradox of redistribution in time : social spending in 53 countries, 1967-2018

Garcia-Fuente, Xabier - 2021

Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …

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