Elderly Bias, New Social Risks, and Social Spending: Investigating Change and Timing in Eight Programs Across Four Worlds of Welfare, 1980-2003

Tepe, Markus; Vanhuysse, Pieter

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1370004

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“…Inflows and outflows are netted out. The enveloping curve of the shaded area is in line with the general message of the pro-elderly bias literature (Tepe and Vanhuysse, 2010;Vanhuysse, 2013). European welfare states are pro-elderly oriented: the elderly get many more public transfers per capita than children.…”

Section: Public Transfers: Pro-elderly Welfare Statessupporting

confidence: 70%

Pro-elderly welfare states within pro-child societies: Incorporating family cash and time into intergenerational transfers analysis

Gál¹,

Vanhhuysse²

2016

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Households and welfare states both serve as vehicles of lifecycle financing through intergenerational transfers. Working-age people are net contributors, children and the elderly are net beneficiaries. However, there is a marked asymmetry in the socialization of intergenerational transfers. Working-age people pay taxes and social security contributions to care for the elderly as a generation, but they individually spend cash and contribute time to raise their own children. This results in asymmetric visibility of intergenerational transfers. Resources flowing to the elderly are near-fully observed in National Accounts (NA), but inter-and intra-household transfers are not registered there. Using data for ten European countries representing 70% of the population of the EU, we employ National Transfer Accounts (NTA) to include private transfers as well. In addition, as an extension of NTA, we use National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) to quantify the value of time transferred within and between households in the form of unpaid labor. Only a fifth of all resource transfers to children is registered in NA; another third is made visible by NTA, but nearly half is made visible only by NTTA. Contrary to much perceived wisdom, once intra-familial transfers of cash and time are incorporated, European societies transfer more resources to children than to the elderly.

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Section: Public Transfers: Pro-elderly Welfare Statessupporting

confidence: 70%

Pro-elderly welfare states within pro-child societies: Incorporating family cash and time into intergenerational transfers analysis

Gál¹,

Vanhhuysse²

2016

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“…How can we interpret these results? On the one side, the countries in the conservative and familialistic regimes offer stronger and more egalitarian protection to their seniors (Ferrera and Gualmini 2004;Tepe and Vanhuysse 2010), while liberal countries chose the opposite strategy, in which seniors are more dependent on non-public and non-egalitarian protection schemes. In this respect, Norway is more stable.…”

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Welfare Regimes, Cohorts, and the Middle Classes

Chauvel¹

2013

Income Inequality

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“…In contrast, Ireland, Belgium and Estonia allocate relatively the most to children and young people, although still less than to older persons. Among the "oldest" countries, Italy shows a strong tilt toward older persons, Germany is in the middle, and Sweden allocates more evenly across the generations, although still favouring the elderly (Tepe and Vanhuysse, 2010;Vanhuysse, 2013).…”

Section: Intergenerational Equitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region: Outcomes, Policies and Possibilities

2013

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Elderly Bias, New Social Risks, and Social Spending: Investigating Change and Timing in Eight Programs Across Four Worlds of Welfare, 1980-2003

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Pro-elderly welfare states within pro-child societies: Incorporating family cash and time into intergenerational transfers analysis

Pro-elderly welfare states within pro-child societies: Incorporating family cash and time into intergenerational transfers analysis

Welfare Regimes, Cohorts, and the Middle Classes

Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region: Outcomes, Policies and Possibilities

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