Welfare State
The welfare state is a form of government in which the state protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of the citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. Sociologist T. H. Marshall described the modern welfare state as a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare, and capitalism.As a type of mixed economy, the welfare state funds the governmental institutions for health care and education along with direct benefits given to individual citizens. Early features of the welfare state, …
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Eurofound · 1 June 2024 English
outlines the trends both between and within Member States. Finally, it looks at the role of the welfare state in cushioning market income inequalities and how this has evolved over time. …
States. Finally, it looks at the role of the welfare state in cushioning market income inequalities and …
Roosevelt Institute · 16 April 2024 English
Focusing on corporate and public power, labor and wages, and the economics of race and gender inequality, the Roosevelt Institute unifies experts, invests in young leaders, and advances progressive policies …
they live in a generous and universalistic welfare state” (Radcliff 2013, 7). rooseveltinstitute.org …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 15 April 2024 English
as the father of the UK’s nuclear weapons is “unshakeable” and NHS and much of the rest of the welfare state. [...] His foreign “changed” - a reference to secretary, Ernest Bevin, In the face of rising global …
“unshakeable” and NHS and much of the rest of the welfare state. “absolute”. Writing in the Daily Mail, he described …
ADM+S: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society · 15 April 2024 English
Governments are progressively integrating data-driven algorithmic systems into critical domains related to the health and welfare of people with disability. These applications encompass tasks such as detecting benefit fraud, assembling …
and contextual details.12 In the realm of welfare state decision-making,� where algorithms shape possibilities … a maximum of eight hours of care per day.� welfare state decision making, dating back to the time of … Healing Justice Ldn: Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence. Healing Justice Ldn (HJL) work on … healingjusticeldn.org/2022/11/29/creative-resistance-to-welfare-state- violence Report: Computer says ‘no!’ – stage … 44� van Toorn, G (2024) “Automating the welfare state: the case of disability benefits and services …
IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 15 April 2024 English
Turning to the parameter estimates in the wage equation, we see that wage gaps of race- ethnicity minority groups tend to be most pronounced in the bottom half of the …
after-tax income a streamlined version of the welfare state approximated by the value of transfers from …
CESifo Network · 15 April 2024 English
Meritocratic Labor Income Taxation
background and income during the rise of the welfare state: Brother correlations in income for Swedish …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 12 April 2024 English
Ruth Patrick and Sharon Wright highlight the positive lessons that the rest of the UK can learn from Scotland’s more flexible and empathetic approach to social security. As the UK …
IRPP: Institut de recherche en politiques publiques · 9 April 2024 English
A report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (2023) noted that, between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2022, the lowest-quintile households were not …
Kymlicka, & J. Myles (Eds.), Federalism and the welfare state in a multicultural world (pp. 101-130). McGill-Queen’s …
Egyensúly Intézet · 9 April 2024 English
it at the bottom of the EU midfield, in The performance of the Netherlands the top one-third of the EU. [...] 05 07 We are the best performer in terms …
Hungary has the second important differences by welfare state lowest number of robberies per 100,000 standards …
IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 8 April 2024 English
Latin America is widely acknowledged as one of the most unequal regions of the world (Sánchez-Ancochea 2021). But it is also one of the most democratic, certainly as compared to …
encompassing labor movements, which were critical to welfare-state expansion elsewhere (Ahlquist and Levi 2013; … Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago: …
