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How Expensive is the Welfare State? Gross and Net Indicators in the OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX)
- Title
- How Expensive is the Welfare State? [electronic resource]: Gross and Net Indicators in the OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) / Willem Adema and Maxime Ladaique
- Author
- Adema, Willem.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ladaique, Maxime.
- Description
- 98 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- This paper first presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure across the OECD. Gross public social expenditure on average across OECD increased from 16% of GDP in 1980 to 21% in 2005, of which public pensions (7% of GDP) and public health expenditure (6% of GDP) are the largest items. This paper then accounts for the effects of the tax system and private social expenditure which leads to a greater similarity in social expenditure-to-GDP ratios across countries and to a reassessment of the magnitude of welfare states. After accounting for the impact of taxation and private benefits, social expenditure (1) amounts to over 30% of GDP at factor cost in Belgium, Germany, and France and (2) ranges within a few percentage points of each other in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United States.
- Series Statement
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.92
- Uniform Title
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, no.92.
- Subject
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- LCCN
- 10.1787/220615515052
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-000892
- Author
- Adema, Willem.
- Title
- How Expensive is the Welfare State? [electronic resource]: Gross and Net Indicators in the OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) / Willem Adema and Maxime Ladaique
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2009.
- Series
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.92OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 1815-199X ; no.92.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- Added Author
- Ladaique, Maxime.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/220615515052 doi