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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

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Unequal Societies

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

redistributions decreases with the degree of inequality, at least over some range. Moreover, capital market imperfections make future … high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. Temporary shocks to the distribution of income or the political …

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Inequality and the Political Economy of Eurosclerosis

Krugman, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

because European nations were in effect trying to fight market tendencies towards increased inequality. In the United States …, with its much more limited welfare state, there has been a striking rise in inequality; a stylized model suggests that the …

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