Research Catalog

Title

Middle class welfare / James Cox.

Author

Cox, James, 1949-

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Business Roundtable, 2001.

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Additional Authors

New Zealand Business Roundtable.

Description

xiii, 249 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Documents the level of income churning in New Zealand and argues that governments should consider alternative policies that involve people who can afford to do so taking greater responsibility for providing their own health care, education and retirement incomes.

Subject

• Public welfare > Economic aspects > New Zealand
• Welfare economics
• Middle class > New Zealand
• Aide sociale > Aspect économique > Nouvelle-Zélande
• Économie du bien-être
• Middle class
• Public welfare > Economic aspects
• Social policy
• Welfare economics
• New Zealand > Social policy
• New Zealand

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The welfare state debate -- Introduction -- Problems with middle class welfare -- Some alternative views -- Reasons for increasing concern about the welfare state and its financing -- Contribution of this report 2. An assessment of the arguments for Government provision of welfare state services -- Introduction -- Market failure arguments for government provision -- Other arguments for government provision -- Equity arguments -- Summary 3. Welfare state services in New Zealand -- Introduction -- Education -- Health -- Retirement incomes -- Personal social services and housing -- Benefits and tax credits -- Summary 4. A comparative perspective on the New Zealand welfare state -- Introduction -- Comparisons with Australia -- Comparisons with OECD countries -- Comparisons with East Asian countries -- Summary and conclusions 5. Who benefits from the welfare state and who pays for it? -- Introduction -- Fiscal incidence in New Zealand, 1997/98 -- Results of the fiscal incidence study -- Some comparisons -- Summary 6. An analysis of churning of income -- Introduction -- Results for the whole population -- Results for demographic groups -- Summary 7. Some thoughts on policy -- Introduction -- Two possible goals for social policy -- Some recent contributions to the policy debate -- Recent policy changes in New Zealand -- Some important constraints on choice of policy -- Policy strategies -- Some immediate priorities -- Summary and conclusions.

ISBN

• 1877148725
• 9781877148729

OCLC

• 56797875
• SCSB-10365157

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library