Age in the Welfare State

The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children

By: Julia Lynch

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This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.

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'Julia Lynch has made an unusually creative and insightful contribution to comparative social policy theory. The great virtue of Age in the Welfare State is that it succeeds in answering all three of its major research questions in a robust, systematic, and thought-provoking way.' Pieter Vanhuysse, University of Haifa

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Society & Culture Social Groups Age Groups Age Groups for Adults Age Groups for The Elderly Social Services & Welfare Social Welfare & Social Services Welfare & Benefit Systems

Economics Political Economy Gender Studies

List of Tables and Figures	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Measuring the Age of Welfare	p. 15
Age and the Welfare State: Theories and Hypotheses	p. 41
Family Allowances: Wages, Taxes, and the Appeal to the Self-Employed	p. 70
Benefits for the Unemployed: Young and Old in the Fortress Labor Market	p. 108
Old-Age Pensions: The Architecture of Expenditure	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 180
References	p. 201
Index	p. 219
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