Wealth and welfare states: is America a laggard or leader?
"This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations, and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations, and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | Titel: Wealth and welfare states
Autor: Garfinkel, Irvin
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Figures and Tables viii
1. Introduction 1
2. Why All Rich Nations Have Large Welfare States 20
3. The Size, Nature, and Universality of Welfare State Transfers 39
4. How Welfare State Programs Redistribute Income, Reduce
Poverty and Inequality, Build and Sustain Human Capital,
and Promote Opportunity 62
5. A Short American-centric History of Welfare State
Programs and Outcomes 102
6. Explaining American Exceptionalism: Laggard in Public
Relief and Social Insurance?Leader in Education 128
7. Explaining US Divergence in the Last Quarter of the
Twentieth Century: The Long Swing Right 151
8. The Future of the American Welfare State 177
References 211
Index 239
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1: Log social welfare expenditures as a percent of GDP by log
GDP per capita in 118 nations (2000) 21
3.1: Social welfare transfers as a percent of GDP in 14 rich
nations: with and without employer-provided benefits (2001) 42
3.2: Social welfare transfers in US $ per person in 14 rich nations:
with and without employer-provided benefits (2001) 44
3.3: The shares of cash (gross and net) and in-kind
transfers (2001) 50
3.4: Universality of social welfare transfers in 14 rich
nations (2001) 53
3.5: Distribution of healthcare transfers to families with children,
by income quintile (2001) 56
3.6: Distribution of housing transfers to families with children,
by income quintile (2001) 57
4.1: Effects of cash transfers on relative and absolute poverty
rates in 10 rich nations: all households 73
4.2: Two measures of relative economic well-being: children 77
4.3: Two measures of relative economic well-being: elders 79
4.4: Educational attainment as a percentage of the
population (2001 and 2002) 81
4.5: PISA 2003 raw scores at 10th and 90th percentiles
and the mean in 9 rich nations 83
5.1: Percentage of GDP spent on public assistance, 1800 to 2000 104
5.2: Years when first laws of social security programs
were enacted 106
5.3: Percentage of children age 5-14 enrolled in public primary
schools in 1830, 1870, and 1900 107
Figures and Tables
5.4: Secondary school (public and private) students per
1,000 children in 1900 and 1930 109
5.5: Percentage of the population that has attained
at least upper secondary education in 1970 and 2001 110
5.6: Percent of children enrolled in pre-primary
education, in 1975 and 2002 111
5.7: Gross size of the US and other welfare states in 1900 112
5.8: Gross size and composition of the US and other
welfare states in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2001 113
5.9: Top 1% share of income?selected countries, 1913-2005 115
5.10: Infant mortality, 1900-2000 118
7.1: Strength of the left and social welfare transfers in
the US, 1960-2003 172
Tables
2.1: Growth rates in per capita GDP: 14 currently rich nations in
three time periods 33
4.1: Redistribution of welfare state benefits in the US by
households (2000) 64
4.2: Net benefits as a percent of full income across the life cycle 69
4.3: Net benefits as a percent of full income by quintiles 70
4.4: Health-care outcomes in 10 rich nations, 2002 86
4.5: Immobility rates (intergenerational income elasticities)
in rich nations 88
4.A.1: Health benefits per person and education benefits per
beneficiary by country 94
4.A.2: Tax structures as percentage of total tax receipts, 1999 94
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