Adema, Willem; Fron, Pauline; Ladaique, Maxime - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2011
Part I of this paper first presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure as in the OECD Social Expenditure database for the years 1980 – 2007. Over this period, public social expenditure as a percentage of GDP, on average across OECD, increased from 15.6% to 19.2%....