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AbstractOver two decades ago, Korpi and Palme (1998) published one of the most influential papers in the history of social policy discipline, in which they put forward a “paradox of redistribution”: the more countries target welfare resources exclusively at the poor, the less redistribution is actually achieved and the less income inequality and poverty are reduced. The current paper provides a state-of-the-art review of empirical research into that paradox. More specifically, we break down the paradox into seven core assumptions, which together form a causal chain running from institutional design to redistributive outcomes. For each causal assumption, we offer a comprehensive and critical review of the relevant empirical literature, also including a broader range of studies that do not aim to address Korpi and Palme’s paradox per se, but are nevertheless informative about it.
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Over two decades ago, the Swedish scholars Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme published one of the most influential papers in the history of social policy discipline, in which they put forward a “paradox of ee redistribution”: the more countries target welfare resources exclusively at the poor, the less redistribution is achieved and the less income inequality and poverty are reduced (Korpi & Palme, 1998)
On use “transfer share,” which they define as “the size or extent of the welfare state within the average household’s income” and consider “a household-level version ly of welfare effort” as an alternative measurement for the redistributive budget size. Their results show no significant association between transfer share and public support for redistribution, suggesting that the size of the redistributive budget perhaps does not increase with support levels, after all
Like any exceptional study, it has inspired a large body of research, which with an ly increasing availability of high quality comparative data and more advanced methods has provided a more nuanced understanding of the distributional implications of the institutional setup of Western welfare states
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Two decades after Korpi and Palme’s “Paradox of Redistribution”: What have we learned so far and where do we take it from here? Journal: Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy ee Manuscript ID RJCS-2019-0030 Keywords: Paradox of redistribution, universalism and means testing, literature review, poverty, income inequality iew ev ly Two decades after Korpi and Palme’s “Paradox of Redistribution”: What have we learned so far and where do we take it from here?
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